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IAGD - Program Overview

The IAGD residency program is housed in the Family Medicine Building, located on the ISU campus. Residents work primarily in the Pocatello Family Dentistry Clinic, a fully equipped, newly renovated clinic offering state-of-the-art equipment, facilities and full-time dental auxiliaries. The faculty consists of general dentists and specialists who are scheduled to provide consultation and clinical on-site instruction. Residents are responsible for learning to function effectively as primary dental care providers. This role includes personally providing patient-focused care, utilizing routine and advanced treatment modalities, as well as directing interdisciplinary treatment among various specialties. Residents plan, implement, and manage care for special patient populations. In addition, residents have the opportunity to participate in implant dentistry, parenteral conscious sedation and hospital dentistry.

Residents will receive training in practice management and accounts by actually managing the dental clinic and by participating in the Practice Management Course. Weekly didactic programming is interlaced with clinical experiences. Dental literature review sessions allow scientific methods training through review and assessment of research publications and scientific literature. The residents can participate in research and teaching opportunities, as well. The residents share an emergency on-call rotation in conjunction with the local hospital and enjoy a close affiliation with the ISU Family Medicine Residency Program.

Residents will be required to obtain licensure in Idaho (Idaho is a WREB and CRDTS state) and can expect to commit full time to the residency program. Upon completion, residents are encouraged to practice in Idaho and the program will provide assistance in evaluating potential opportunities throughout the state.

The IAGD residency program strengths are summarized as follows:

• Each resident has the opportunity to tailor the program to his/her desires.
• It is the goal of the program to have maximum resident exposure to all aspects of dentistry
• Residents will receive hands on training in diagnosis, oral surgery, dental implants, conscious sedation, endodontics, periodontics, removable prosthetics, restorative dentistry, pediatric dentistry, and fixed prosthodontics including full mouth rehabilitation and esthetic dentistry.
• Residents have the opportunity to learn from many successful private practitioners. This helps them to develop their own personal dental philosophy and style by taking what they find useful from each practitioner and combining them together.

Residents

8 residents/year: 4 located in Pocatello and 4 located near Boise

• Annual Stipend in biweekly installments
• Eligible for loan deferment and possible loan payment programs
• Health Insurance
• 15 days paid vacation
• Paid continuing education
• Dental work on immediate family is no fee(except procedures with a lab fee)
• Possible humanitarian trip to Peru
• Product demos from supply representatives

Resident Experiences

• Anesthesia rotation – 3 weeks
  • Resident will spend time in pre-op at the hospital developing venous access techniques and time in the OR shadowing anesthesiologists and learning intubation techniques
• Outpatient dental clinic – 4 days/week
• Didactic day – 1 day/week
• Literature review – 1 every month
• Dental rotations
  • Council, Idaho at the Adams County Community Health Center
    Boise Site
• Orthodontic seminar
  • At a local orthodontist’s local office reviewing cases and having 6 lectures over lunch
• On-call – 1 week  at a time for the residency year

Faculty/Staff

• 10 general practitioners
• 4 oral surgeons
• 4 endodontist
• 2 periodontists
• 1 orthodontist
• 1 oral diagnosis/medicine
• 6 hygienists
• 8 qualified expanded duties dental assistants
• 2 front desk coordinators

Boise

Population

– City  181,711   City of Boise (APA, June 2000)

– MSA  403,817   (MSA - Ada & Canyon Counties)

Elevation  2,842 feet

Land Area  1,645 sq mi (Boise MSA)

Annual Precipitation  12.11 inches

Sunshine Days   234

Temperature Average  

January	22-36 degrees F
April	37-61 degrees F
July	58-90 degrees F
October	29-65 degrees F

 

Pocatello, ID – “The Gate City”

Population is just over 50,000

Great outdoor activities close to town in all directions:

• Skiing
• Hunting and fishing
• Mountain biking
• Hiking

Residents - (Where they are now?)

2000 – 3 residents

2 GPs (1 Utah, 1 Ohio) & 1 Endodontist (Utah)

2001 – 4 residents

3 GPs (1 Pennsylvania, 1 Montana,  1 Idaho) & 1 Oral Surgery Resident (LSU)

2002 – 4 residents

4 GPs ( 3 Idaho, 1 Oregon)

2003 – 4 residents

4 GPs (2 Idaho, 2 Utah)

2004 – 4 residents

3 GPs (1 Utah, 2 Idaho, 1 pursuing orthodontic training)

2005 – 8 residents

7 GPs (1 Utah, 6 Idaho, 1 pursuing pedodontist training)

2006 – 8 residents

7 GPs (3 Idaho, 1 Mississippi, 1 Montana, 1 Oregon, 1 pursuing specialized training) & 1 Endodontist (Virginia)

2007 – 8 residents

8 GPs (1 Montana, 2 Idaho, 1 Missouri, 2 Colorado, 1 Oregon, 1 pursuing specialized training Pennsylvania)

2008 – 8 residents

8 GPs (1 Utah, 2 Idaho, 2 Colorado,  1 Texas, 1 Montana, 1 Oregon)