M.S. and Certificate in Orthodontics
Masters Thesis and Clinical Responsibilities
Masters Thesis In addition to earning a certificate in Orthodontics, residents of
the graduate orthodontic program at Marquette University are required
to prepare and successfully defend a Master's Thesis during the Winter/
Spring of their final year and submit a publishable form. Residents
are encouraged to choose a topic and major advisor during their first
year and begin their research project in their second year. The University's
resources permit the resident to consider a great variety of areas
for investigation.
Clinical Responsibilities
Patients accepted for treatment in the graduate orthodontic clinic
are distributed equally among the first year residents throughout the
year. As new patients are assigned, the resident gathers records and
then formulates a treatment plan with supervising instructor. Because
clinical instructors use a variety of techniques, patients are only
treated by the assigned instructor. Each resident can expect to start
approximately 30-35 new cases and will inherit retention and active
patients at the end of the first year. An appropriate number of early
treatment, adult, surgical patients are distributed to each resident.
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