Education and Patient Services
The Department of General Practice (GP)
is dedicated to improving oral health while
fostering the quest for knowledge and
advancing the education process.
About the Department »
Located on the MCV campus of Virginia
Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia, the GP Department's full-time faculty members
have over 300 combined years of experience in dentistry and a combined 225 years as dental educators
at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Our faculty teach a wide range of dental courses and they also provide instruction in the school's
advanced general dentistry residency. In addition to providing valuable clinical
experience to our senior dental and dental hygiene students, the school's clinical service-learning
program provides quality oral health care to the community. Since July 2000, the school's
students and faculty have participated in the Mission of Mercy (MOM) Project, providing
dental care to underserved areas of the state. The school is in the forefront of dental education with its
DentSim dental simulators, a computerized training system, which allows students
to perform procedures on a simulated patient and receive real-time feedback.