PRIMARY CARE CLINIC

Catalog description

Integrated Clinical Sciences. In Primary Dental Care Clinic 1, dental students work in teams to provide comprehensive dental care to patients ranging from pediatrics through geriatrics. College of Dental Medicine (CODM) students are organized into clinical practice teams based on a student-to-faculty ratio of six to one. Each practice team is managed by a Clinical Faculty, Student Team Leader, and a Patient Care Leader (PCL). Each practice team will have an assigned family of patients, and the students and faculty of that team will collectively assume responsibility for providing the oral health care needed to address the patients’ needs. Students will have the opportunity to provide team-based care as a primary provider, secondary provider, runner, and team leader. Students will review treatment plans and discuss patient oral health care during weekly team meetings and daily team huddles.