Externship Program
For questions, contact Kimberly Poole: 503-494-0292 or poolek@ohsu.edu.
The externship at OHSU - Emanuel is designed to offer students, between the third and fourth year of dental school, to come and do a rotation and an opportunity to gain a hospital based oral & maxillofacial surgery experience.
You must be a U. S. citizen or resident alien with a green card indicating you are a permanent resident of the United States and attend an ADA accredited institution.
This is either a two or four week externship with time split between OHSU and Emanuel Hospitals. We do not accept externs during the last two weeks of June and first week of July. At this time the department is transitioning the resident program and the WSOMS meeting is being held.
You are required to submit the following with this application:
- Complete application form
- Briefly describe your reasons for wanting to attend this externship on an attached sheet of paper
- CV
- College transcript
- Dental School transcript
- NBDE
- Class rank
- Letter of recommendation from a Faculty member of your attending school
- Professional malpractice insurance coverage, valid for the State of Oregon, for a minimum of $1 million per occurrence.
- Verification of the following immunizations: Rubella, Rubeola and Varicella, as well as, Tuberculin and Hepatitis B status.
Please return all requested information to:
Oregon Health & Science University
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Department, SDOMS
Externship program
611 SW Campus Drive
Portland, OR 97239
It is the responsibility of the applicant to arrange for all of the requirements listed above and that these have been received prior to approval. Housing information will be sent prior to coming. It is up to the applicant to make his/her own arrangements, as well as, travel and personal expenses.
