VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

Catalog description

Integrated Behavioral Health Sciences. This block integrates students’ previous understanding of patient management and applies it to the special considerations of vulnerable populations. It builds on students’ current clinical experience as a foundation for meeting the needs of patients with medical, physical, psychological, developmental, or social situations that have an impact on a patient’s ability to maintain oral health and treatment in a conventional setting. Strategies for modifying treatment routines, making appropriate alterations in treatment plans, and improving their oral health care are discussed.