MDOH 5207 - Skills Acquisition

6.15 credit hours

This course is designed to allow the students to go through the cognitive and associative stages of skills’ acquisition. This would include communication principles in the care of dental patients, the fundamental concepts of infection control, prevention and oral hygiene instruction and basic dental assisting skills. It will also cover fundamental principles and concepts of dental materials science and cognitive, associative and autonomous stages of basic theory and techniques of operative dentistry. This includes concepts in Occlusion and Articulation, Dental Materials, Oral Medicine, Oral Health Concepts and Operative Dentistry.