General Practice Dental Officer - EDRP​/be

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application.

Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply. Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.

• Education: A degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery or dental medicine resulting from a course of education in dentistry. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed. Approved schools are (1) United States and Canadian schools of dentistry listed by the Commission on Dental Accreditation(CODA), in the list published for the year in which the course of study was completed.(2)
  
  Schools (including foreign schools) accepted by the licensing body of a State, Territory, or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia as qualifying for full and unrestricted licensure provided the licensure requirements include a written examination measuring science achievement and a performance examination measuring clinical competence certification, and must obtain a copy of the ECFMG certificate, if claimed by the applicant.
  
  ~AND~
• Residency: Completed, or you are currently completing, a residency program in general practice or specialty, or comparable experience as a dentist actively involved in treating medically compromised patients. ~AND~
• License: Currently hold, or will hold, a current, full and unrestricted license to practice dentistry in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
  
  Note:
  
  Dentists must maintain current registration in the State of licensure if this is a requirement for continuing active, current licensure.

• Completion of a GPR , AEGD program or 5 years
  ¿ experience in dentistry
• Experience with digital dentistry
• Experience in all aspects of general dentistry, including the restoration of dental implants
• Familiarity with surgical procedures, including simple and complicated extractions and dentoalveolar procedures.
• Perform restorative dentistry to include full dentures, partial dentures, crowns, and fixed bridge work
• Perform oral and radiographic examination of the oral cavity

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Physical aspects associated with work required of this assignment are typical for the occupation and would generally not require a pre-placement examination.