The General Practice Dental Residency at the University of Virginia Health System  offers both a one-year and two-year program designed to allow the practitioner to enhance knowledge and expand clinical skills developed in dental school.

The program was established in 1974 and is fully accredited by the American Dental Association. Applicants are selected yearly to fill four positions. The goals of this program are to:

• Increase competence and confidence in all areas of general dentistry
• Learn to function with hospital and outpatient physicians in a hospital as a member of a health care team
• Provide an understanding of the techniques of pain control, and anxiolysis including general anesthesia and sedation
• Understand and manage the unique dental problems of medically compromised, economically underserved and handicapped patients
• Develop lifetime skills in the scientific application of learning to patient care