This course is a capstone clinical immersion that provides students with clinical rotation experiences over three terms in the D4 year in off‐campus community clinics. Activities while on rotation are tracked, attested, and accessed using a cloud‐based data storage system. This is a 4 credit‐hour graded course, the first in a series of three courses, which, when complete provides a summative assessment of clinical competence. A grade will be entered after each cycle/semester is completed. All rotations are at calibrated off campus sites under the supervision of credentialed preceptor faculty. Due to scheduling, rotations may be split between different semesters. Students provide patient care at community sites while adhering to all School of Dentistry standards of care. For tracking purposes, students post every patient encounter while on rotation, which includes a non‐‐identifiable patient profile and ICD 10 diagnostic and procedure codes. Students are evaluated by their individual preceptor faculty and are required to provide evaluations of the site and preceptors. Students self‐ assess and share personal insights regarding what they have learned by completing a reflection assignment following each rotation.

This interprofessional course is for student learners in the areas of advanced practice providers (medicine and advanced-practice nursing), dentistry, pharmacy, and social work. The course allows health professional students to gain an understanding of how each discipline contributes to the healthcare team, the importance of effective communication, and the role of team collaboration in clinical decision-making.

This course will provide D3 students with the basic information necessary to navigate through their Community-Based Collaborative Care and Education experiences by providing fundamental information and practice related to the rotation process in a virtual format. This 1 credit pass/fail course consists of a formal virtual orientation session, assignments, evaluations, and virtual rotations which will be an assessed experience focusing on the mechanics of documenting patient care and learning. For tracking purposes, students post every patient encounter while on rotation in eMedley, which includes a non‐identifiable patient profile and diagnostic and procedure codes. Students are evaluated by their individual preceptor faculty and are required to provide evaluations of the site and preceptor. Students self assess and share personal insights regarding what they have learned by completing a self‐assessment and a reflection assignment following their rotation.

This is one of a series of courses on Professionalism, the Dental Profession, and Dental Practice Administration. It will address issues both global and specific to being a dental professional and the operation of a dental practice. The objective of these courses is to make you aware of the pertinent issues facing the practicing dental professional and to provide you with the skills necessary to excel as a dental professional and run a successful dental practice. In today's world, for a practice to be successful, it must be patient-centered, founded on sound communication and business principles, and guided by leadership skills necessary to create an efficient and pleasant office environment for staff, patients and the owner dentist (see Outcomes Competencies for the Practice Management Program).
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to fundamental elements of practice management necessary to prepare you to effectively manage your current and future practice and to develop the foundation necessary to maximally benefit from experiences planned in subsequent Practice Management courses. Emphasis will be placed on:
1. Identifying elements critical to effective management of any successful practice.
2. Developing intra-professional skills and appreciation for effective team function in dental environments for ideal patient care.
3. Applying select elements toward enhanced management of your CompCare Clinic Practice.
4. Assessing the impact of those applications.
The ethical and social issues that are intrinsic to the practice environment will be addressed where indicated.

The D-3 Treatment Planning Seminar provides students with clinically based decision-making exercises to supplement their didactic and clinical experiences. During the Term, faculty will provide patient case scenarios for consideration/discussion. Students will gain experience in analyzing and responding to a wide variety of medical and dental conditions and needs. Emphasis will be placed on planning care to achieve practical treatment goals based on diagnostic findings, risk factors, available resources, and patient preferences. Students will discuss strategies for managing these needs as they expand treatment planning skill and experience.

This course is a combination of the DENT 743A & DENT 743B courses which will consolidate case-based seminars (743A) with the Pediatric Dentistry clinical rotation (743B).
Two-week, 16 half-day sessions rotation which includes
• typodont exercises
• typodont-based clinical skills tests
• supplemental exercise assignments
• in-person, small group case-based seminars
• direct patient care
• resident observation

This course will be a clinical introduction to oral health issues and care for pediatric and adult patients with special healthcare needs, including those patients with disabilities and/or mental illness, medically compromised status, maxillofacial trauma, head and neck cancer, and orofacial pain/TMD. This will include patient interactions with residents and faculty in OMFS/Hospital Dentistry in a clinic and operating room setting; on an outpatient, inpatient, and emergency basis. It also serves to reinforce concepts taught previously in the Dent 613 Principles of Oral Surgery, Dent 615 Dentistry for the Medically Compromised Patient course and Dent 703 Adult Special Care/Hospital Dentistry courses, and to help prepare students to provide comprehensive dental treatment for their patient families in the remainder of dental school and clinical practice after graduation. This course will equip the graduating dental student to discuss the scope of an oral surgery and hospital dentistry practice, review treatment planning and management of complex patients, evaluate a patient’s health history, discuss the impact of the patient’s condition(s) on the delivery of dental care, review the importance of interprofessional interaction in planning the patient’s dental treatment, explain the continuum of behavior management techniques for persons with special needs, review procedures involved in scheduling a patient for dental treatment in an operating room setting, and participate in the team providing dental treatment to patients in the operating room. Online resources include selected journal articles from the dental and medical literature and other relevant patient education resources. Students are encouraged to participate in daily morning rounds with Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, as well as weekly resident seminars of the OMFS and GPR programs.
Rotation activities for each assigned day are designed to allow students to integrate and apply foundation knowledge with clinical problem-solving strategies to further develop the critical thinking skills needed to provide safe and effective dental management of complex patients. Students will participate in a variety of unique treatment settings, and as such, may observe, assist or provide direct patient care depending on the situation and the student’s level of experience. There is value in each of these roles; please consider that active learning can take place regardless. Observation can allow for a more complete analysis and understanding of the patient-provider interaction while assisting can allow for a more direct form of learning in complex procedures. Attempts will be made to provide direct patient care experiences when possible and appropriate to expose the student to treatment planning considerations and management strategies for patients with complex needs.

This course builds upon the baseline knowledge acquired in past coursework and provides live patient care experience through the clinical application of the principles of exodontia and the surgical management of medically compromised patients in the oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic. The experience prepares the student to demonstrate competence in the practice of dentistry, specifically, the performance of basic oral surgery and exodontia.

This course includes didactic background information and introductory clinical experiences in preventive periodontal care. Evaluation of disease status, periodontal diagnosis, treatment planning and management of patients and treatment of disease is also introduced relative to the dentists’ responsibilities in general dental practice.

This course will emphasize the principles of indirect restorations and promote the development of dexterity in clinical dentistry. The principles taught in this course will serve as a foundation that will be applicable in both single-unit indirect restorations and fixed prosthodontics procedures. This is a laboratory course supplemented by reading assignments. Emphasis will be placed on understanding clinical and laboratory step-by-step procedures as well as the development of a logical plan of treatment.