Michael C. Matzkin, D.D.S. Chairman Department of Dentistry

The Department of Dentistry at St. Mary's Hospital offers a one-year General Practice Residency (GPR) program accepting four residents annually. The program has been fully accredited by the American Dental Association since 1951 and participates in the Post Doctoral Application Support Service (PASS). It is the only general dentistry residency program offered in Greater Waterbury, and one of only five in Connecticut, and affords participants a wide range of clinical experiences.

Residents train at Saint Mary’s Dental Health Center, which is attached to the hospital, providing care to a diverse patient base with required rotations within the hospital in anesthesiology, the Emergency Department and the Department of Medicine.

Saint Mary’s Hospital has been affiliated with the Yale University School of Medicine as a teaching hospital for nearly 40 years. The hospital currently offers a medical residency program affiliated with Yale and remains one of three hospitals in the Yale Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, a clinical training program in Waterbury staffed by Yale residents and attending physicians. The hospital’s surgical residency program, a six-year training program that is one of the oldest in the state, is also closely linked to Yale.

All residents at Saint Mary’s have the opportunity to participate in Research Day, a joint annual program sponsored in partnership with Waterbury Hospital, allowing residents to present posters, abstracts and papers based on their clinical research to the local medical community.

Residents in the general dentistry program also participate in community benefit programs, distributing free care through the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Waterbury, regional health fairs and the American Dental Association’s “Give Kids a Smile Day.”

Upon completion of the program, some residents have continued on to specialized training programs across the country and over the years many have chosen to establish private practices in Connecticut.

For further information, please contact the program chairman:

Michael C. Matzkin, DDS
Saint Mary’s Hospital
Department of Dentistry
56 Franklin Street
Waterbury, CT 06706
mmatzkin@stmh.org.