Einstein Medical Center's residency in endodontics, one of the first hospital-based endodontic programs approved by the American Dental Association, offers residents comprehensive training in all phases of endodontic treatment. The hospital environment allows significant experience in the endodontic management of medically compromised patients. The 24-month program, which admits two residents each year, prepares graduates to practice, teach and conduct independent research.

Goals of the Program

1. Develop skillful clinicians capable of delivering the most advanced or complex endodontic care at a high level of quality and sophistication.
2. Establish a sound biological basis for the practice of endodontics.
3. Satisfy the formal education requirements necessary to establish board eligibility and to succeed in the certification process of the American Board of Endodontics.
4. Develop fundamental research skills and an interest and understanding of research in order to appreciate and evaluate published clinical and scientific papers.
5. Create the desire and a pronounced sense of responsibility to contribute to the perpetuation and growth of endodontics by mentoring, teaching, counseling and advising.

The Clinical Experience

Residents work in their own operatories, equipped with a chairside X-ray unit and all the instruments and supplies necessary to practice modern endodontics.

The program is staffed by highly respected members of the endodontic community. Under staff supervision, residents develop advanced nonsurgical and surgical endodontic skills; use a variety of techniques, including the surgical operating microscope; and develop an individual endodontic treatment philosophy. They have the opportunity to treat patients using intravenous and other forms of conscious sedation, and to observe and perform endodontic therapy in the operating room.

During the didactic phase, residents join other postdoctoral dental students in a basic science program at the  University of Pennsylvania . Weekly seminars, lectures, case presentations and formal endodontic courses in pulp biology and pathosis, diagnosis, emergency treatment, traumatology and surgery enrich the program. Residents also participate in current and classic literature seminars. In addition, residents must conduct and prepare for publication an independent research project. Close cooperation among the three endodontic residency programs in the Philadelphia area (Einstein, Temple, and Penn) enables residents to interact with a multitude of world-renowned endodontic clinicians and researchers.