Multidisciplinary Experience in Patient Care

Catalog description

This multi-disciplinary course is designed to provide D2 students with foundational knowledge and early clinical experiences that place “patient centered” care at the core of all learning exercises. This course builds on the D1 multi-disciplinary fundamental core lecture series ( CLS03-DN 1510 ). This course serves as a predecessor for, and a pre-requisite to, the Transition to D3 Clinics course ( CLS03-DN 2610 ). Clinical observation sessions are designed to reinforce and provide clinical relevance to the basic science and pre-clinical courses taught in D1 and D2, and to underscore the fundamental requirements of professional behavior. These clinical experiences will provide opportunities to observe: communication skills, history taking, performing head and neck clinical examinations, dental examinations and charting, obtaining vital signs, performing health risk assessments, local anesthesia landmark techniques and safe handling of armamentarium; specific restorative or other treatment modalities, and entering chart and treatment information into axiUm. This course is open only to students in the Doctor of Dental Surgery program. Core curriculum.