Foundations of Patient Care II

Catalog description

Foundations of Patient Care II (FPC II) continues the presentation of fundamental elements needed for successful patient care. This course, along with the Clinical Dentistry series, will introduce and teach contemporary dental practice. As dentistry evolves, patient care is changing rapidly with new modalities, techniques, and practices for clinical care. This course, along with the Clinical Dentistry series, introduces and instructs the D1 student in the most recent developments in evidence-based dentistry. As the complexity of patient care evolves in the curriculum, critical elements associated with these complexities will be appropriately presented, discussed, and studied. A variety of learning experiences and modalities will be used to introduce and instruct the D1 student to clinical skills essential to the practice of general dentistry. Learning will take place in the classroom, the dental simulation laboratory, and the Oral Health Center clinic. This course will also employ the use of simulated patient encounters, both mannikin-based and with standardized patient actors, to teach foundational assessment and response skills. Foundations of Patient Care II focuses on teaching concepts, techniques, and skills whose mastery is critical for the general dentist to arrive at a proper oral diagnosis. Scientific-based evidence supporting best practices in dentistry will be presented alongside the instruction of techniques and skills to demonstrate the need for evidence-based practice and instruct the student how to critically read and assess relevant literature. New concepts introduced within the FPC II course include dental radiology, periodontology, oral pathology, salivary diagnostics, and dental photography. Students will continue to learn more advanced concepts in minimally invasive dentistry, restorative dentistry, dental ethics, patient management, and communication.