Overview:
Directly reporting to the Director of Periodontics, with a dotted line to the Director of Clinical Education, and the Executive Assistant Dean of Clinical Affairs, periodontal faculty are responsible for direct patient care and mentoring/teaching students within Touro College of Dental Medicine's clinic.
Responsibilities:
- Initiate and guide student doctor/patient interaction
- Perform dental procedures on patients of the clinic as needed
- Model and advise students on professionalism and patient management techniques
- Assist in solving patient related problems
- Assist the Director of Periodontics in the review of each student's performance within the pediatric dentistry clinic
- Assuring accuracy of student clinical notes, approving student procedural code, and evaluating/assessing student in the areas of Preparedness, Professionalism, & Promptness
- Monitoring for unapproved notes of treatments on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
- Report instances of misconduct to the Director of Periodontics
- Maintaining calibration as determined by the Director of Clinical Education as well as:
- Ensuring all clinical protocols are being followed in their clinical areas
- Infection Control Compliance
- Complete Reviews of student activity upon request
- Aid in supervision of Clinical Formative and Summative Examination Process
- Attend periodic meetings with the Director of Periodontics and attend clinical faculty meetings, including Faculty Forum
- Membership, if appointed, on relevant Clinical Committees
Qualifications:
Education/Experience
- D.D.S./DMD from a CODA-accredited dental school or equivalent.
- Certificate of training and educationally qualified from an ADA-accredited specialty program.
- Dental License Registration; must be eligible for licensure in the state of New York.
- Previous teaching experience.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- A track record of scholarly activity and outstanding patient care, as well as demonstration of or likely commitment to diversity-related teaching/research/service.
- Engagement and familiarity in curriculum development and digital dentistry technology and experience in faculty calibration.
- A high degree of interpersonal competency: Professionalism, diplomacy, judgement and discretion required.
- Demonstrated ability to develop positive and cooperative relationships with students, faculty and colleagues.
- Ability to organize tasks.
Certifications/Licensures
- DEA number.
- Board Eligible or Certified.
Maximum Salary:
USD $196,748.00/Yr.
Minimum Salary:
USD $157,398.00/Yr.