ASDO 6301 - Practice Management and Professional Development 2B

1 credit hour

Special Care Dentistry: This course integrates basic disease processes, epidemiology, demographics, treatment planning, and principles of providing dental treatment for individuals with a wide variety of special needs. These include patients with physical, medical, developmental, and cognitive conditions, which limit the patients’ ability to receive routine oral care. In addition, this course will provide oral health professionals with tools to assess the needs of older adults, analyze their often complex medical, physical, and social situations, and provide optimum treatment for each individual.

Treatment Planning: The purpose of this module is to enable students to develop the logical thought processes needed for comprehensive, problem-oriented treatment planning for adult and medically complex patients. Previous didactic information will be utilized as the student applies this knowledge to the assessment and organization of specific patient data. Students will work in groups to prepare several diagnoses and problem lists needed to plan sequenced treatments. Students will also be provided a basic understanding of how various medical disorders can affect oral health and the delivery of dental care. This module is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of how various medical disorders can affect oral health and the delivery of dental care. In addition to learning basic information about common medical conditions, the student learns the process of risk assessment and treatment planning considerations for patients with typical medical disorders. Emphasis is placed on studying and researching various information resources.

Behavioral Science I: This module introduces and reviews the legitimacy, methods, disorders, ethics, and legal components of mental health/substance abuse disorders and social issues that impact the clinical dentist.

Collaborative Dental Rounds IV: The module is a team based module and structured on forming a team of the four classes D1-D4. The main purpose of the module is to integrate the D1 didactic material and the D2 pre-clinical modules with the D3 and D4 clinical experience using evidence–based decision making and case based learning into the Curriculum.

Evidence Based Dentistry II: This course integrates access to and use of evidence in support of critical decision-making. Students will demonstrate mastery through professional presentation applying concepts associated with the basis of evidence-based approach to clinical practice in answering a specific clinical question.

Professionalism IV: The purpose of this module is to impress upon students the importance of professional behavior in their lives and careers.

InterProfessional (IPE) Through the Lens of Oral Systemic Disease II: This course introduces the concepts of telehealth (telemedicine and teledentistry) and will provide a basic understanding of how telehealth brings care to underserved populations utilizing traditional and new technologies. As well, this course is designed to teach students universal communication skills with patients and other healthcare providers.