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| STUDENT LIFE |
Information to Residents in Orthodontics (During Orientation
Session)
Welcome to Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, a division
of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the
American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine and Medical
Center.
The division was established in late 2001, but dentistry can
trace its ‘roots’ at AUB to 1910, when the University founded
the first dental school in Lebanon and the Near East, and its
first dean Dr. Arthur Ryton Dray held his first class of three
students. Today the Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
services are carried out at brand new facilities using the
latest equipment of this highly-specialized field. Our
orthodontic clinic, The Karekin G. Tabourian Dentofacial Clinic,
carries the name of a former student and professor at the AUB
dental school, which closed in 1940.
The obligations and responsibilities of residents are outlined
in the Resident’s Agreement you sign in the Dean’s office. Other
specific delineations are embedded in the Clinic Manual. On
examinations and promotion to the next year of residency, our
policy is clear: a minimum grade of 80% must be achieved on
didactic and clinical performances. These are evaluated at the
biannual Faculty Meeting (usually in February and September). At
these times, the progress and final examination, respectively,
and clinical performances will be evaluated by the faculty
members. Decisions that can be made include the following:
Grade: requirement for passing is 80%.
Failure to achieve the minimal grade may lead the faculty
members to take the following action:
- Probationary status, which may be limited to the
didactic, clinical, or both areas. The faculty members will
decide collectively or ask the program director to set a
remedial plan for the individual resident, with preferably
periodic evaluation.
- Dismissal. Reasons for dismissal on non-academic and
disciplinary grounds are parallel to institutional
conditions. Academic reasons are based on failing to meet
the objectives set for the probation period, and sustained
failure on examinations or in clinical performance.
You will find:
- a description of the program and its curricular
timetable. You will enrol in the Master’s program, which
requires you to conduct research and defend a thesis. This
research will be accepted as fulfilment of the research
requirement for the orthodontic residency certificate. As
you were informed upon applying to the program, no tuition
is required for the orthodontic program, but it is for the
Masters degree. Also, orthodontic residents do not receive a
resident stipend.
- a schedule of activities for the Fall. Other schedules
are distributed at the proper time.
- a copy of the dress code and communications code. The
aim is to promote professional presence and behaviour (the same is
published in Chapter 2 of the Clinic Manual).
- a copy of the clinic manual, which guides you into
clinical procedures and policies, codes of conduct,
infection/exposure control, and various emergency and
patient rights policies. In the clinic, partnerships are set
between the residents (PG1, PG2, PG3) according to
alphabetical order.
- vacation is not taken by all residents at the same time,
as the clinics do not close. In addition to the holidays
allowed by the Medical Center, at least two of the four weeks of vacation are
taken in the summer, one at Christmas day, and if another one
is left, at a time determined in consultation with the program
and clinic directors.
Please feel free to interact and communicate openly among
residents and with faculty and staff and work in partnership and
collegiality. |
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