Multidisciplinary Practice of Dentistry

Catalog description

This multi-disciplinary course is designed to provide first year dental students with foundational knowledge and early clinical experiences that place “patient centered” care at the core of all learning exercises. The core lecture series provides necessary background in professional behavior, communication skills, appreciation of diversity and health attitudes, introduction to HIPAA and patient privacy, as well as infection control in order to allow students to safely integrate into the clinic environment. The clinically based series of lectures focus on performing head and neck examinations, dental examinations and charting, obtaining vital signs, performing health risk assessments, local anesthesia landmark techniques and safe handling of armamentarium. The clinic observations are designed to provide relevance to the basic science and pre-clinical D1 experiences, and to underscore the fundamental requirements of professional behavior. This course is open only to students in the Doctor of Dental Surgery program. Core curriculum.