The clinical elective is a four-week rotation that allows the student to obtain in-depth exposure to radiation oncology with an expert preceptor (s) at a regional hospital. The student will experience the day-to-day activities of this specialty in the outpatient setting.

With the advice and approval of the faculty adviser and the Student Progress and Promotions Committee, the fourth-year student may choose approved electives offered by the various departments in the College of Medicine. The intent is to provide the student an opportunity to develop their fund of knowledge and clinical competence. To meet curricular demands, all students in the College of Medicine are required to own or have reliable access to a laptop computer meeting the minimum performance standards.

With the advice and approval of the faculty adviser and the Student Progress and Promotions Committee, the fourth-year student may choose approved electives offered by the various departments in the College of Medicine. The intent is to provide the student an opportunity to develop their fund of knowledge and clinical competence. To meet curricular demands, all students in the College of Medicine are required to own or have reliable access to a laptop computer meeting the minimum performance standards.

With the advice and approval of the faculty adviser and the Student Progress and Promotions Committee, the fourth-year student may choose approved electives offered by the various departments in the College of Medicine. The intent is to provide the student an opportunity to develop their fund of knowledge and clinical competence. To meet curricular demands, all students in the College of Medicine are required to own or have reliable access to a laptop computer meeting the minimum performance standards.

This lecture/preclinical course in operative dentistry is designed to provide a beginning student with basic knowledge and basic hand skills for operative dentistry involving tooth preparation and restorative techniques for direct restorative materials. This course is directed at preparing the student with knowledge and skills in the diagnosis and treatment of carious lesions necessary for patient care in operative dentistry.

This introductory lecture course is designed to provide the dental student with necessary knowledge of dental anatomy, dental morphology and basic dental occlusion for all succeeding courses in preclinical and clinical dentistry. This includes a detailed description and study of individual teeth, relationship of dentoform and function, mandibular movement and introduction to muscles of mastication. Lectures related to biomaterials are added as needed.

This introductory laboratory course is designed to provide the beginning dental student with skills manipulating wax to successfully replicate the dental anatomy of individual teeth as well as learning the relationships of form and function within the context of mandibular movement. These skills are learned by use of the dentoform as well as dental articulator. Laboratory experiences relating to dental biomaterials are introduced as needed.

This course is designed to review the biological basis for the concepts and treatment procedures of dental caries as an infectious disease and will provide didactic foundational knowledge for the clinical management of dental caries.

This course emphasizes clinical application of the principles taught in preclinical courses. Concepts of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as well as preventive measures are applied in the clinic with emphasis on the demonstration of competency in rendering primary care type treatment procedures.

This didactic course places an emphasis on the basic knowledge required for treatment planning, tooth preparation and the fabrication of indirect single unit dental restorations. This course also introduces and reinforces concepts in dental material sciences pertinent to the selection of an appropriate restorative material, and the correct handling of dental stones, dental investments, dental alloys and luting agents for dental restorations.