Course Information
Description
Each student is required to take and pass three oral comprehensive examinations on cases selected and documented by the faculty. The objectives of these examinations are: to evaluate the student's comprehensive understanding of total patient care; to provide a learning experience for students so that they may gain confidence in comprehensive patient management; to provide a forum in which the student may orally present the case history, the clinical findings, and treatment planning before a critical audience; to evaluate the breadth and depth of each student's dental knowledge; and to determine if deficiencies in dental knowledge exist and initiate remedial action, if needed. Students are provided with the case history, models, Kodachrome slides, radiographs and dental examination charts which they are allowed to study for one and one-half hours and from which they must derive a diagnosis and treatment plan. Immediately following the preparation period, each student reports to an examination team for a one-hour examination period to present the findings and respond to questions.
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