Full Time vs Part Time Residency Requirements Prior to 2024
Part Time Residency Program
A. The signed Residency Registration Application Form (co-signed by the Diplomate Supervisor) and fee. If this item was mailed to the Executive Seceretary, the Executive Director will scan and upload it to the DMS document.
B. Applicant’s curriculum vitae in AVDC format.
C. Proposed arrangements for meeting the anesthesia, radiology and surgery Specialty Training requirements.
D. A list of the equipment and supplies available to you at you practice, indicating that you are equipped to commence the planned training program when you are working in your own practice environment. See AVDC Initial Equipment List.
E. A list of relevant Books and Journals available to you at your practice.
F. Part time residents are required to begin their first four weeks of the program with direct supervision with their Residency Supervisor. On average, eight weeks will be required to be spent with your Supervisor each year to meet the minimum diplomate supervision requirement.
Part Time Residency Forms
Part Time Initial Equipment List
Part Time Dental Chart Supervisor Form
Requirement |
Full Time |
Part Time |
Total Program Time from Start Date |
30 months minimum 6 year maximum |
30 months minimum 6 year maximum |
Type of Diplomate Supervision required |
Direct supervision1 |
Direct supervision1 |
Location of residency |
On-site with Residency Director/Supervisors at approved Residency Site. Resident is not working at satellite clinics with indirect supervision. | Mix between Residency Director’s/Supervisor’s approved residency site(s) and resident’s primary practice. |
Allowed usage of 30-month exception for credentials |
Yes – 30-months must be completed by Feb 28th the year following provisional credentials acceptance. | No |
Minimum directly supervised clinical time weeks2 |
48 weeks |
48 weeks **First 4 weeks must be at mentor’s practice** |
Total Clinical Time (supervised + unsupervised) |
78 weeks; Full-time residents will have no more than 6 weeks per year total indirect supervision for clinical weeks (starting January 2023) | 78 weeks |
Approved AVDC Residency Site(s)3
|
Yes | Yes – Residency Director’s site(s) needs to be an approved residency site. Additional documentation is required for part-time resident program approval. |
Who Approves Site |
RPAC | RPAC |
Who Approves Individual Resident Programs |
Approval through RPAC. | RPAC – Part-time resident needs to submit application, arrangements for SIT and documents for equipment list and library at resident’s practice (not the approved residency site). |
Who Approves the Resident |
Residency Director/Supervisor. Only APP-100 form required. | The Residency Director/Supervisor and RPAC. |
- Direct supervision is defined as the Residency Director/Supervisor and the resident are participating in a clinical practice approved for residency training and in which both the Diplomate and the resident are on duty interactively and concurrently managing cases. Direct supervision means a Board-Certified Veterinary DentistTMis readily available on the premises where the patient is being treated and has assumed responsibility for the veterinary care given to the patient by a person working under his or her direction. Indirect supervision means a Board-Certified Veterinary DentistTM need not be on the premises and has given either written or oral instructions for treatment of the patient. The Residency Director/Supervisor is readily available by telephone or other forms of immediate communication and has assumed responsibility for the veterinary dental care given to the patient by a person working under his or her direction.
- Full-time Residencies, shall provide a minimum of 40 hours of clinical dentistry experience per “clinical week.” A “Clinical Week” is defined as 40 hours acquired during a Monday-Sunday time span containing any of the following activities: clinical dental didactic rounds, clinical dental/maxillofacial consultations and procedures, dental/maxillofacial cadaver work, and teaching involving the foundations of dentistry. If a resident were to work more than 40 hours of clinical dentistry in a week (Monday to Sunday), it is still to be counted as 1 week towards the 48 and 78 weeks of the supervised and unsupervised clinical time requirement for a full-time residency. (Applies to full-time residencies starting January 2021 and on.)
- If a pair or group of AVDC diplomates working at different locations joins together to form a residency program under which the resident’s time will be shared in a formal way, each Diplomate participating within the program must be located at an approved residency site or at the resident’s primary practice with approved initial equipment list and library.