Dental Faculty- MAHEC's Dental Health Center

Mahec•Asheville, NC

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), in association with the UNC Adams School of Dentistry, seeks a full-time faculty member for its division of Dentistry GPR program and Adams School of Dentistry AROW Scholars Programs in Asheville, NC. Dental Faculty will join our innovative, growing team to provide excellent, evidence-based, efficient interprofessional patient care services, resident and student teaching, mentoring, curriculum planning and effective supervision. You will work in state-of-the-art clinics with collaborative and engaged colleagues across the healthcare spectrum.

Requirements

License to practice Dentistry in North Carolina, or Teaching/Instructors Licensure in Dentistry in North Carolina
Experience in General Dentistry patient care training and skills
Experience in GPR residency programs
Experience in Student teaching programs
Experience with or ability to utilize electronic medical record applications including but not limited to Dentrix Enterprise, MiPacs, Romexis, Workday, Microsoft office suite, Digital dentistry (Cerec) etc.

Nice To Haves

Spanish speaking skills preferred
Interest and experience in dental resident & student teaching

Responsibilities

Works together with dental residents and dental students in the Dental Health Centers and other MAHEC dentistry locations, including hospitals; surgery centers, and elementary schools as needed.
Provides clinical instruction, teaching and oversight of resident and student care of patients.
Evaluation of patients with resident dentists and student dentists as required and in compliance with resident training CODA standards (Commission on Dental Accreditation) and payor contracts, and MAHEC academic policies and goals.
Reviews and signs off on resident and student clinical notes and completes all relevant documentation as needed and within required time frames for both precepting/attending and individual patient panel.
Consults with hygienists, dental assistants, and business office staff.
Completes worklists and documentation tasks falling to regular Faculty Dentists in accordance with MAHEC policies.
Assists in treatment planning and procedures as part of precepting/attending responsibilities.
Serves in the dental faculty practice, seeing own patient panel as required by contract with MAHEC.
Serves as second emergency department hospital call at Mission Hospital in Asheville and provides regular cadenced dental care in the operating room setting.