Program Requirements

Residents enrolled in the Periodontics Advanced Education Program must complete the following requirements:

   1. Graduate students, regardless of classification, must maintain a 3.0 (B) grade point average for all course work taken for graduate credit at UMKC.
   2. Graduate students must maintain a 3.0 (B) grade point average in their graduate level specialty course work.
   3. Grades in specialty area course work must be B or better.  Any specialty area course that is graded below B must be repeated.


Required Core Curriculum

Course #		Credit Hours
PERIO 5701	Periodontal Residency I	1-6
PERIO 5702	Periodontal Residency II	1-6
PERIO 5703	Periodontal Residency III	1-6
PERIO 5704	Periodontal Residency IV	1-6
PERIO 5705	Periodontal Residency V	1-6
PERIO 5706	Periodontal Residency VI	1-6
PERIO 5707	Periodontal Residency VII	1-6
PERIO 5708	Periodontal Residency VIII	1-6
PERIO 5709	Periodontal Residency IX	1-6
PERIO 5719	Implantology	2
BMS 9701	Head & Neck Anatomy	2
BIO-SCI 5740	Oral Pathology	2
RES-ME 5700	Introduction to Research Methodology	2
BIO-SCI 5710	Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry of Cranial Facial Biology	2
RES-ME 5704	Introduction to Biostatistics	2
BIO-SCI 5805	Molecular Biology of Oral Microflora	2
BIO-SCI 5760	Physiology of Oral Hard Tissues	2
BIO-SCI 5759	Special Problems in Pharmacology	2
BIO-SCI 5802	Immunopathology	2