Dental Medicine & Surgery Clinical Instructorship

For interested applicants for the 2026/27 cycle, please carefully review the information below.

Eligibility:

1. Active California Dental Board license at start of program (July 1)
2. Hospital experience such as successful GPR or intern year completion

Apply:

To apply please submit to our coordinator at salineja@stanford.edu:

1. Resume
2. Letter of Intent
3. Two letters of recommendations

The Dental Medicine & Surgery service is proud to support a one year position dedicated to the advanced surgical and medical management of the head, neck, face and jaw. Clinical Instructors will work in close relationship with Dental Medicine & Surgery as well as Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery faculty. Opportunities for clinical and basic research may be available depending upon interest.

Our goal is to foster future dental medicine leaders in a very specialized training environment that can help address the nationwide shortage of dentists equipped to handle hospital based care. The objective of the one year clinical instructorship is to provide advanced training in hospital dentistry with a focus on surgical and medical management of medically complex patients. The clinical instructorship is intended to provide focused training for those that may be considering pathways to academic, hospital, private or specialty dental careers.  

Dedicated teaching faculty consist of general practitioners and board certified oral maxillofacial surgeons. Clinical Instructors will have access to the wide breadth of other Stanford Medicine services such as Radiation Oncology and Otolaryngology. Fellows can expect annual case load exposure to: head and neck oncology, cardiothoracic surgery, organ transplant, orofacial trauma, orthognathic, oral pathology, full mouth dentoalveolar surgery and implant rehabilitation and sleep apnea.

Since this programs inception in 2019, past fellows have completed dental specialty training, and joined as staff dentists at Stanford, VA Palo Alto and UCSF.