MENTORSHIP - Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology OR TMD and Orofacial Pain (2026-27)

McGill Continuing Dental Education offers two mentorship options: oral medicine/clinical oral pathology and temporomandibular disorders and orofacial pain. The mentorship in general will be comprised of lectures about temporomandibular joint disorders as well as clinical hands-on experience, that, based on your eligibility (licensed in Québec or not) will involve examining, diagnosing and treating patients with TMD and orofacial pain disorders or complete clinical oral pathology and oral medicine lectures and clinical hands-on/observations on the management of oral lesions and medically complex cases. Interest in TM disorders and oral lesions have gone through evolutionary and revolutionary changes. This course will provide training commensurate with standards of care and evidence-based management of the patient that have been developing in the academic communities around the world over the last decades. The McGill TMD/Oral Medicine Mentorship Program is designed to offer a comprehensive experience for the practicing dentist that will connect the medical and dental aspects of TMD or oral lesions. At the completion of the program, the dentist should be able to diagnose and treat patients who have a temporomandibular joint disorder and be able to recognize other orofacial pain conditions or oral lesions and can be able to recognize and manage those conditions. In the Oral Medicine Mentorship, the candidates will receive at least 25-30 anonymous cases as well along with patient histories and clinical and/or radiographic imaging based on the topics covered on the course. The candidate is encouraged to review these cases and develop their own differential diagnoses. We will review each case’s clinical presentation with thorough descriptions of the clinical and/or radiographic images, and the candidate will be given time to ask questions and provide differential diagnoses. A formal differential diagnosis will then be provided for each case. Each disease on the formal differential diagnosis will be discussed with a view to its plausibility as a diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. The mentorships will be conducted in both the McGill Faculty of Dentistry and Montreal General Hospital clinics. Hands-on work on patients will be possible for those licensed in Québec. Dentists not licensed in Québec will participate on an “observational’ basis. The duration of the mentorship is flexible and could be 2-3 months (or more) and the objectives could be tailored based on the duration of the residency. A 1-month residency could also be considered. Dentists will attend 4 days a week.

Course Objectives

● To learn how to identify and document a multidisciplinary, comprehensive case

● To be comfortable presenting a documented case to a group of colleagues

● To improve treatment planning and sequencing knowledge and skills

● To understand how to integrate specialist care into a complex case