Advanced Concepts in Dental Public Health is a third year course designed to help students develop the perspective and sensitivities of dentists practicing in the community. It examines the external environment and various factors that influence the oral health of the community including barriers to care. Financing mechanisms and workforce issues will be discussed.
Students are provided a full-time, off-campus assignment to a dental practice environment for a period of 4-8 weeks. Students spend an average of 32 hours each week participating in practice management and patient treatment activities under the supervision of a dentist. Approximately eight hours a week are spent in career plan development and in study of the community or region, particularly its health care delivery system and the role of dentistry in that system.
This course is primarily designed to give the student dentists, prior to graduation, practical, useful knowledge on establishing and maintaining a private dental practice. The course will be presented in an active learning format. Course sessions and activities will also include special sessions designed to introduce students to the current environment of dental practice, to organized dentistry in Kentucky, to the College's Alumni Association and to new developments and continuing education in the dental profession. Lecture 69 hours.
This course is designed to provide student dentists an experiential learning experience in a research program, clinical program, public health program and/or institutional dental program. Career planning and service-learning are emphasized and coordinated with placement in a community-based site. Students learn by active participation in patient care and/or research, by observation and by discussion with mentors. Discussions and interviews with patients and dental residents and staff are also encouraged.
This course allows implementation of oral health promotion programs designed in CDE 830 in community settings.
This Community-Based Service elective is designed to give students greater opportunities to provide dental services to diverse, underserved populations. The goals of this course are to expand development of a service ethic and to meet some of the needs of populations who do not have access to dental care. The majority of the time requirements for this course will be rotations to community clinics where students will work under the supervision of a College of Dentistry faculty providing dental services.
This community-based service learning elective is designed to afford students greater opportunities to provide a broad spectrum of dental educational, clinical and public health services to diverse, underserved populations in an international setting. The majority of time requirements for this course will be in a foreign country at designated community sites potentially working with other health care professionals. Activities will include but are not limited to assessing both community and patient needs and providing services based on the needs assessment and community goals.
A seminar course on nature and physiologic control of physical growth, for graduate students in dentistry.
A seminar course for graduate students in dentistry covering emotional and intellectual growth of children, and diseases and congenital anomalies of children.
This course provides information regarding the normal anatomy and function of the masticatory system and then highlights some of the common disorders related to dysfunction of this system. Emphasis is placed on tempormandibular disorders and how they are identified and management in the clinical practice. Other disorders associated with orofacial pain complaints will be discussed so that students are able to identify these conditions and successfully manage them or refer the patient to the appropriate health care provider.
