3 courses with the subject PDNT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PDNT 40101 Introduction to Community Based Dental Education -This D2 course introduces the student to dental
public health. This course will also provide the D2 student with the basic principles in promotion, improvement and maintenance of oral health. In addition, students will participate in community outreach programs. (1 credit hour) PDNT 410-01 Dental Ethics & Jurisprudence II – This D2 course explores ethical paradigms and introduces dental students to legal terminology related to the practice of dentistry. The course will enable the students to critically think 120
PDNT 50101 Practice Management - This D3 course presents information that is essential to establishing or6
purchasing a dental practice or joining an existing practice as an associate or partner. Models of solo practice, group practice, partnership practice and associateship practice are discussed. Topics are presented that assist in the development of the management skills necessary to operate a dental practice successfully. Personnel management, office design, financing, jurisprudence, managed care organizations, estate planning, business and cost accounting are discussed. (1 credit hour) ASDD 323-01 Integrated National Board Dental Examination Review I (INBDE Review I) – This course is designed to provide D1 year dental students with a review of high yield concepts as it relates to the Integrated National Board Dental Examination. The areas discussed include the biomedical sciences (gross anatomy, microbiology, physiology, neurosciences, and pathology), restorative dentistry (prosthodontics and operative dentistry), and oral diagnosis (oral radiology and oral pathology).
PDNT 52101 –Behavioral Management in Dental Practice- This D3 course is designed to provide students an
opportunity to develop communication skills for interacting appropriately with patients, peers, and other health care professionals. The course integrates topics such as communication in the healthcare setting, cultural considerations, gift taking/giving, non-verbal communication, the use of assertiveness, persuasion and motivation, managing medically compromised patients. Additional topics include respect, empathy, paternalism, autonomy and abuse/trauma, all of which contribute to understanding the psychological needs of the patient. (1 credit hour) PDNT 522-01 Community Dental Health II- This D3 course focuses on the basic concepts of dental public health as related to the community. The history of dentistry, principles of fluoride and sealant usage, epidemiology of oral diseases and cancer, HIV/AIDS, OSHA guidelines, current issues in health care, social policy and health care economics are discussed. Models of health care delivery systems and quality assurance are presented. The course teaches basic skills in the data collection and interpretation of population-based and community-based surveys and programs. (2 credit hours) PDNT 561-01 Geriatric Dentistry - This multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary D3 course focuses on the oral diagnosis and treatment planning for the older adult. It prepares the student with the essentials of how to evaluate the geriatric patient including the physical, mental, pharmacological, and socioeconomic aspects of assessment. Oral assessment, enhanced by actual case studies, is presented so that the student will have an understanding of various therapies that are necessary to accomplish the delivery of dental care to the older adult. Ethical issues in geriatric health care and elder abuse will also be discussed. (1 credit hour) ASDD 615-01 Final Competency Exam (FCE) – This course represents the final course required to measure competency in a D4 student. It is comprised of an amalgamation of all FCEs completed by the student in each of their clinical courses. 121
