Mike accepted in GPR program

Mike was just recently invited to fill a position at the University of Alberta Hospital Dental Clinic as a General Practice Resident!

He was interviewed a few weeks ago. As such, we will be moving to Edmonton probably in June sometime and starting work July 1st, 2009 to June 30, 2010. We are excited as this position was the top on our list of possibilities. Elania is especially excited to live closer to her cousins.

If you are wondering what this actually means, Mike explained it in an email he sent out to our families. He said:

"In this position, I will be a licensed Dentist in the province, and will work in the Hospital's Dental clinic during the week, take turns staffing the walk-in dental clinic in the evening, and rotate with other staff and residents taking on-call for dental emergencies in Edmonton and Northern AB. We also spend a few days a week at a clinic in the Dental School where we will see patients with needs too numerous or too complex for the dental students there. This will include doing crowns, bridges, implants, root canals, fillings, extractions etc as well as training with lasers and some other high tech doodads.

At the hospital we will be trained in IV (conscious) sedation for doing dental work for patients with special needs, impacted wisdom teeth and anxious patients... We will also be involved in treating patients who are currently in-patients with dental needs including (dentally) preparing patients who are about to undergo chemo/radiation therapy."