Leadership in Oral Health and Primary Care

SDM 438C Subject & Catalog Number

Description

This leadership course will consist of interprofessional teams of fourth-year dental students as the leaders in oral health care delivery, working with medical and dental professionals to provide various forms of treatment to the patients of the dental clinic and serve as senior student mentors to the first-year students. Each fourth-year student is assigned to a first-year dental student during the integrated sessions in a new Leadership in Oral Health and Primary Care Program designed for the fourth year dental students. The supervising faculty for the clinic includes a subset of dental faculty for the fourth year students overseeing the treatment procedures as routinely performed in the teaching clinic.  Another group of dental faculty and primary care physicians are available to monitor the learning process to meet the primary care competencies as part of the pre-doctoral dental curriculum.