Hospital Residency Director

Overview

La Clínica de La Raza is a community-based health center committed to providing culturally appropriate, high-quality, and accessible health care to the diverse communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. We have spent over 40 years advocating for and creating a health home for the many that have been denied access to care. As health care activists, we are dedicated to making sure individuals who do not have health coverage get the same level of quality healthcare as those who have it. From our genesis as a community health center in 1971, we understood that we cannot heal our communities without also addressing the economic and social factors that affect health. Many times, this requires that we go outside and provide services in other settings to build the bridge that links individuals to our health center for preventive and primary care. Over 90,000 individuals come to La Clínica because it is a welcoming place that addresses the whole person, coordinating and connecting them to a broad network of services to improve and maintain their health and well-being. While we are still known for our activism and spirit of social justice, we are also proud to have grown into a sophisticated provider of primary health care services with 35 sites across Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties.

The overall goal of the Children’s Dental Clinic at La Clinica de la Raza is to improve the oral health of medically complex, special needs, vulnerable, underserved, and rural children in California by expanding and enhancing the postdoctoral training programs in pediatric dentistry and dental public health, and by providing care under general anesthesia care to this vulnerable and underserved population. This position will directly contribute to this goal by supporting the expansion of sedation, general anesthesia, and hospital dentistry experiential learning of pediatric dental residents at La Clinica de la Raza.

Responsibilities

• Provides hospital dental care and directly responsible for the care and coordination of the general anesthesia program, inpatient hospital dentistry consults, and emergency department dental care within UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland and affiliated hospitals of the Children’s Dental Clinic at La Clinica de la Raza.
• Establish and maintain relationships with UCSF Benioff’ Children’s Hospital, Oakland administration, departments, and staff
• Provide guidance in the credentialing and proctoring and ongoing oversight of La Clinica De La Raza/CHO dental providers and trainees in delivery of dental care under general anesthesia, responding to in-patient consults, and emergency room care during and outside of office hours, as well as coordinating patient care following consult. This includes participating in after-hours calls and consults with residents.
• The Hospital Residency Director is responsible for ensuring the quality of care of the in-patient/out-patient and general anesthesia dental care of La Clinica providers and trainees
• Maintains equipment and dental supplies used in hospital general anesthesia and in-patient/out-patient dental care and emergency department.
• Provides direct patient care and supervises trainees at La Clinica De La Raza/CHO dental clinic.
• Provides pediatric sedation services and supervises residents in providing pediatric conscious sedation dental care.
• Coordinates with and works alongside the UCSF Postgraduate Pediatric Dentistry Program Director and the La Clinica Associate Director of Pediatric Dentistry for the training, evaluating and outcomes assessment of the UCSF pediatric dentistry trainees in the practice of hospital dentistry.
• Coordinates, oversees and supports patient referrals from the La Clinica De La Raza dental clinics to affiliated and unaffiliated hospital dental services
• The Hospital Residency Director supports and helps oversee the clinic support person assigned to tasks of coordinating referrals and insurance and medical consults for general anesthesia cases.
• Trains and supervises dental assistants in general anesthesia and hospital in-patient/out-patient, Emergency Department dental care.
• Maintains full-time employed position at La Clinica de la Raza as a pediatric dentist provider and a UCSF faculty appointment in pediatric dentistry

Location

• La Clinica’s Children's Hospital Dental Clinic Oakland, affiliated hospitals across the Bay Area

Requirements

• Requires graduation from an ADA or Canadian accredited school of dentistry
• Possession of valid D.D.S./D.M.D. license to practice in the State of California
• Certificate of advanced training in Pediatric Dentistry in a CODA accredited program
• Board-certification is preferred. Consideration will be given to a candidate who is board-eligible with intention to obtain board certification
• DEA licensure
• Pediatric Conscious Sedation Certificate
• Applicants should have clinical experience and be competent in all areas of pediatric dentistry, especially in providing care to individuals with acute and chronic medical conditions and patients with special health care needs in the clinical and hospital-based setting. This will include experience providing comprehensive surgical and restorative care in the hospital operating room as well as other advanced forms of behavior guidance such as oral conscious sedation.

Highly Desirable Experience

• Two or more years of experience in all phases of pediatric dentistry and auxiliary utilization.
• Experience in teaching, clinical research, and administration is strongly preferred.
• Cultural competence working in diverse/under-served communities
• Fluency in Spanish to better serve our large Spanish speaking community
• Ability to work across cultures and demonstrate support of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Major Areas of Responsibility

• Competent in all aspects of pediatric dentistry.
• Perform oral exams, preventive care, restorations, extractions, behavior management, basic orthodontia, basic endodontia.
• Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team of dentists and physicians that provides exceptional patient care, and performs four-handed dentistry and oral surgery.
• Treat oral diseases and confer with physicians regarding medical/dental problems, and assign patients to plaque control or other educational and preventive programs.
• Attend La Clinica and UCSF meetings as required
• Keep clinical and other records regarding services provided, supplies and materials used.
• Daily oversight, instruction, clinical training, and evaluation of pediatric dental trainees at La Clinica de La Raza Oakland/Vallejo.
• Oversee the hospital-based dental programs of La Clinica de la Raza.
• Provide didactic training in pediatric dentistry and mentorship in scholarly research and job placement for pediatric dentists, as needed
• Report to the UCSF pediatric dentistry program director quarterly to discuss resident progress.
• Complete bi-annual resident evaluation forms in a timely manner.
• Work collaboratively with UCSF Division of Pediatric Dentistry to implement all educational program objectives and quality assurance systems.

The Hospital Residency Director reports to the Associate Dental Director.

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