Pediatric Dentistry Clinical Faculty

Overview

Directly reporting to the Director of Pediatric Dentistry, with a dotted line to the Director of Clinical Education and the Executive Assistant Dean of Clinical Affairs, pediatric dentistry faculty are responsible for direct patient care and mentoring/teaching students within Touro College of Dental Medicine’s clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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 Pediatric Dentistry 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.
• Reporting instances of misconduct to the Director of Pediatric Dentistry.
• 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.
• Completing Reviews of student activity upon request.
• Aiding in supervision of Clinical Formative and Summative Examination Process.
• Attending periodic meetings with the Director of Pediatric Dentistry and attending clinical faculty meetings, including Faculty Forum.
• If appointed, membership on relevant Clinical Committees.

Qualifications

• 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 Mexico.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous teaching experience.
• DEA number.
• Board Eligible or Certified.
• 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.