Oral Medicine Residency
Miami Cancer Institute
The Baptist Health Oral Medicine Residency at the Miami Cancer Institute offers a premier, three-year advanced education track designed to bridge the gap between dental expertise and complex medical care. This full-time program prepares residents for independent clinical practice and academic leadership through a curriculum that far exceeds the standard DMD/DDS foundation. By integrating rigorous didactic seminars with immersive clinical training, the program focuses on oral mucosal disorders, salivary gland diseases, orofacial pain, and the management of potentially malignant conditions, ensuring that graduates are equipped for the highest level of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Training is anchored within our world-class 17,000-square-foot facility, where the Oral Medicine and Oral Oncology Service provides a comprehensive environment for diagnosis and treatment. While the Miami Cancer Institute is a leader in head and neck cancer care, the residency’s scope is broad, encompassing the full spectrum of oral medicine domains. Residents gain essential hands-on experience in advanced procedures, including biopsies, laser therapy, and trigger point injections, while managing long-term survivorship challenges like xerostomia and osteoradionecrosis.
Beyond the state-of-the-art infrastructure, the program’s core strength lies in its faculty of world-renowned clinicians and researchers. Residents train alongside experts who are actively shaping the future of the field through national leadership and innovative scholarship. This robust research environment allows residents to participate in clinical trials and multidisciplinary initiatives, fostering a culture of critical thinking and intellectual curiosity that extends well beyond the clinic.
As the only institution in the region providing this level of comprehensive care across diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship, we offer an unparalleled opportunity to train at the intersection of dentistry and medicine. Our mission is to develop clinicians who are not only masters of oral disease but also future leaders in integrated, patient-centered healthcare.
Program Accreditation
Pending accreditation: Council on Dental Accreditation (CODA)
Program Size: 2
PGY-1: 2
PGY-2: 2
PGY-3: 2
People
Miami Cancer Institute
The Miami Cancer Institute, located on the campus of Baptist Hospital, is a destination cancer center known for its innovation and precision in cancer care, exceptional patient experience, advanced clinical research and state-of-the-art technology. The impressive roster of clinicians at Miami Cancer Institute includes renowned oncologists; world-recognized, highly sub-specialized cancer experts and surgeons; clinical researchers and genomic scientists. The Center’s advanced radiation oncology program includes the first proton therapy center from South Florida to South America. As Florida's only member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Alliance, Miami Cancer Institute is part of a deep and functional collaboration that affords patients access to innovative treatments close to home and ensures that the standards of care developed by the multidisciplinary disease management teams match those at MSK. Miami Cancer Institute received awards in leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma as well as surgery in lung, prostate, and colon cancers in 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital Rankings.
Miami Cancer Institute at Plantation
Miami Cancer Institute at Plantation provides access to personalized clinical treatments and comprehensive support services delivered with unparalleled compassion. No other cancer program in the region has the cancer-fighting expertise, backed by the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance, paired with the innovative technology - including advanced genomic testing, advanced skin cancer detection and proton therapy - that is available here.
Eligibility Requirements and Application Schedule
Eligibility Prerequisites
- Applicants must be a graduate from one of the following programs:
- A predoctoral dental education program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation.
- A predoctoral dental education program in Canada accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada; and
- An international dental school with equivalent educational background and standing as determined by the institution and program.
- Applicants must be eligible for a residency/intern permit license to practice dentistry in Florida. Florida Board of Dentistry
Application Requirements
- Official dental school transcripts
- Curriculum vitae
- Personal statement
- Letters of recommendations (two)
- TOEFL Score from a test taken within the past two years. The minimum acceptable overall score is 95. The TOEFL exam can only be waived if the dental degree was obtained in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, or the United Kingdom.
Acceptance and admission to the program is contingent on submission of all requested materials and meeting all eligibility requirements as determined by the program.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Application Timeline
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Where do applicants go to apply?
ADEA PASS - When are applications accepted? May through November
- When are candidate interviews? November through December
- When are candidates matched/notified of acceptance? January
- When does the program start? June