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Dental Medicine

Courses

Dental Colloquium

• DCOL 5101 - Dental Colloquium I

  This DCOL course introduces concepts of ethics, controversies in dentistry, wellness, critical thinking, and cultural diversity.
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DCOL 5102 - Dental Colloquium II

  This DCOL course explores deeper  issues of  cultural awareness, economics, ethics issues from genetics to research.
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DCOL 6101 - Dental Colloquium III

  This DCOL course explores disabilities and advocacy for care, ethics in dental clinical discipline and care delivery areas, and further cultural awareness
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DCOL 6102 - Dental Colloquium IV

  This DCOL course introduces the decisions and ethics in the delivery of dentistry, effective communications, and the introduction to practice concepts.
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DCOL 6103 - Dental Colloquium V

  This DCOL course continues with certain legal and regulatory requirements influencing practice administration, such as licensure,  clear and safe communication to patients in within an electronic health record, HIPAA and other state and federal workflow procedures.
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DCOL 7102 - Dental Colloquium VI

  This DCOL course emphasizes fundamental procedures for office administration to withstand audit and challenges.
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DCOL 7103 - Dental Colloquium VII

  This DCOL course reviews patient management, standards of care, and business management reports and workflows.
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DCOL 8101 - Dental Colloquium VIII

  This DCOL course hosts guest presenters in topics important to practice administration, such as office insurance, banking, financial planning, procurement, and overhead analysis.
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DCOL 8102 - Dental Colloquium IX

  This DCOL provides additional time for a student to deepen theirThis DCOL course furthers practice administration presentations on insurance plans, marketing, employment regulation, contracts, payment options and community service.
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DCOL 8103 - Dental Colloquium X

  This DCOL course explores emerging topics in practice administration, such as handling of social media, referrals, gifting, wellness, family and work balance, continuing education,  and community engagement.
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  

Dental Elective

• DLEC 7101 - Dental Elective I

  This DLEC allows a student to delve deeper into research opportunities, or pursue an area of distinction within the school.
  
  Credit Hours: *1
  
• DLEC 8101 - Dental Elective II

  This DLEC allows a student to deepen their knowledge in areas of distinction or research.
  
  Credit Hours: *1
  
• DLEC 8102 - Dental Electve III

  This DLEC provides additional time for a student to deepen their knowledge in areas of distinction or research.
  
  Credit Hours: *1
  
• DLEC 8103 - Dental Elective IV

  This DLEC allows a student to complete projects in research or areas of distinction which enrich student experiences.
  
  Credit Hours: *1
  

Dental Scientific Principles of Dental Medicine

• DSPM 5602 - Dental Scientific Principles of Medicine II

  This DSPM course addresses hematology, lymphatics, additional head and neck anatomy, common oral lesions, the cardiovascular, pulmonary and nervous system.
  
  Credit Hours: 6
  
• DSPM 5701 - Dental Scientific Principles of Medicine I

  This DSPM course introduces cell metabolism, microbiology, and inflammation, growth and development of the head and neck, the gastrointestinal system, histology, genetics, bone, muscle and innervation, caries, saliva and anesthesia.
  
  Credit Hours: 7
  
• DSPM 6401 - Dental Scientific Principles of Medicine III

  This DSPM course provides instruction in the central nervous system, cranial nerves, the endocrine system, liver, kidney and the musculoskeletal system.
  
  Credit Hours: 4
  
• DSPM 6602 - Dental Scientific Principles of Medicine IV

  This DSPM course provides information on human and mental development, anxiety and sedation, emergency medicine and pharmacotherapeutics.
  
  Credit Hours: 6
  
• DSPM 6603 - Dental Scientific Principles of Medicine V

  This DSPM course provides instruction regarding herbal medications, head and neck anatomy review, and in depth oral pathology.
  
  Credit Hours: 6
  

Dental Skills

• DDSK 5101 - Dental Skills I

  This DDSK course teaches information regarding safety in clinic, EHR usage, instrumentation and equipment use and care, cariology, the preparation and restoration of direct restorations, radiology, materials for direct restorations and anesthesia
  
  Credit Hours: 10
  
• DDSK 5802 - Dental Skills II

  This DDSK course provides information and practice on periodontal disease, oral surgery, and adult endodontics, including treatment, consent and sequelae and continuous care management.
  
  Credit Hours: 8
  
• DDSK 6601 - Dental Skills III

  This DDSK course teaches information about indirect preparations and restorations for single teeth, including imaging, design, production, staining, glazing, materials selection, cementation and subsequent care.
  
  Credit Hours: 6
  
• DDSK 6802 - Dental Skills IV

  This DDSK course teaches concepts and applications for the preparation, production and insertion of complete and partial removable dental prostheses, with patient instruction and recare, as well as single unit inlay and onlay preparations
  
  Credit Hours: 8
  
• DDSK 6803 - Dental Skills V

  This DDSK course teaches all phases from diagnosis through restoration for partial fixed dental prostheses, including implant planning, restoration, and maintenance, and review of multi- unit veneer preparations.
  
  Credit Hours: 8
  
• DDSK 7101 - Dental Skills VI

  This DDSK course teaches orthodontics for the general practitioner, including all phases of diagnosis with minor tooth movement, and a strong integration to emergency dental care, pediatric care, and patient family development.  It incorporates sleep apnea, sports medicine and TMD instruction.
  
  Credit Hours: 10
  
• DDSK 7132 - Dental Skills VII

  This DDSK course provides practice development in all areas of general practice leading toward competency in those disciplines and skills.
  
  Credit Hours: 13
  
• DDSK 7133 - Dental Skills VIII

  This DDSK course furthers practice skills development in all areas of general practice, designed to lead to competency in those areas.
  
  Credit Hours: 13
  
• DDSK 8132 - Dental Skills X

  This DDSK course provides opportunities in general dentistry to expand the student’s knowledge base, practice critical thinking, and experience community dental models.
  
  Credit Hours: 13
  
• DDSK 8133 - Dental Skills XI

  This DDSK course furthers exploration in general dentistry and community practice models, providing opportunities for growth, critical thinking and development of independent practitioner skills.
  
  Credit Hours: 13
  
• DDSK 8901 - Dental Skills IX

  This DDSK course provides additional practice skills and concept development which leads to competency in applied general dentistry disciplines.
  
  Credit Hours: 9
  

Dental Society, Community, and the Individual

• DSCI 5102 - Dental Society, Community & Individual II

  This DSCI course continues team strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety (TeamSTEPPS)  andan introduction to research methodology. clinical research, epidemiology, and statistics. (CHC 2
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DSCI 5401 - Dental Society, Community & Individual I

  This DSCI course includes an introduction into social foundations of health, through units of community immersion, bio-spsycho-social models of health, collaboration and social justice, and an introduction to healthcare systems. (CHC 1)
  
  Credit Hours: 4
  
• DSCI 6101 - Dental Society, Community & Individual III

  This DSCI course includes community oral health issues, to include scope, challenges, opportunities, oral health policy and advocacy. (CHC 3a)
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DSCI 6102 - Dental Society, Community & Individual IV

  This DSCI course analyzes community health issues, ethical issues related to community intervention/activism, risk communication for individuals and communities toward system change and policy proposals. An introduction to biostatistics, biostatistical tests and applications, and the critical appraisal of scientific and clinical literature.
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DSCI 6103 - Dental Society, Community & Individual V

  This DSCI course continues statistical hands-on appllications, emerging dental public health challenges and opportunities, measurements and treds of oral diseases, and evidence-based population-level interventions. (CHC 3c)
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DSCI 7201 - Dental Society, Community & Individual VI

  This DSCI course begins the student’s discovery of community intervention and activism through team interaction with a community group to address a policy or funding need to include orientation, developing a plan for and working on a practicum project in the community. (CHC 4a)
  
  Credit Hours: 1
  
• DSCI 7202 - Dental Society, Community & Individual VII

  This DSCI course continues the student’s development of community intervention and activism through team interaction with a community group addressing a policy or funding need toward a concrete solution. Students will finalize their practicum project, prepare and submit up to two high quality practicum products and prepare and submit a practicum portfolio. (CHC 4b)
  
  Credit Hours: 2
  
• DSCI 7203 - Dental Society, Community & Individual VIII

  This DSCI course is designed to complete the required CITI training, identify a topic area for scholarly activity or research, and meet with the faculty mentor, build the study protocol and submit any IRB application, implement the project and collect data, and organize that data, outline the analysis plan through completion.
  
  Credit Hours: 2
  
• DSCI 8201 - Dental Society, Community & Individual IX

  This DSCI course promotes completion of an online scientific writing training course, summarizing the results, deducing the student conclusions and recommendations, and preparing the study manuscript along with a poster presentation.
  
  Credit Hours: 2
  
• DSCI 8202 - Dental Society, Community & Individual X

  This DSCI course permits continuation of student team project and research. (CHC 1)
  
  Credit Hours: 2
  
• DSCI 8203 - Dental Society, Community & Individual XI

  This DSCI course completes any open grand rounds project, with the finalization of planning and care into a case report.
  
  Credit Hours: 2
  

Dental Spanish

• DSPA 5001 - Dental/Medical Spanish I

  This DSPA course triages Spanish conversation as well as begins teaching conversational foundations for medical/dental Spanish. This course must be taken in conjunction with DSCI.
  
  Credit Hours: 0
  
• DSPA 5002 - Dental/Medical Spanish II

  DSPA continues in this semester with conversational for medical and dental Spanish. This course must be taken in conjunction with DSCI
  
  Credit Hours: 0
  
• DSPA 6001 - Dental/Medical Spanish III

  DSPA continues in this semester medical and dental Spanish. This course must be taken in conjunction with DSCI.
  
  Credit Hours: 0
  
• DSPA 6002 - Dental/Medical Spanish IV

  DSPA continues in this semester with medical and dental Spanish. This course must be taken in conjunction with DSCI.
  
  Credit Hours: 0
  
• DSPA 6003 - Dental/Medical Spanish V

  DSPA concludes in this semester with the third unit of medical and dental Spanish. This course must be taken in conjunction with DSCI.
  
  Credit Hours: 0
  
• DSPA 7001 - Dental/Medical Spanish VI

  DSPA finishes in this semester with an clinical assessment of conversational, medical and dental Spanish with patients. This course must be taken in conjunction with DSCI.
  
  Credit Hours: 0
  

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