Academics
Dental Clinical Specialties Foundations Certificate Academic Information
The CDCSF Program will provide course work to build participants’ capacity in eight marketable skills that are essential for admission and successful performance in an advanced dental education program and for career evolution in contemporary dental practice:
Apply basic science foundations for oral health care in patient assessment and management decisions.
Apply knowledge of the precipitating and exacerbating factors interlinking oral health disorders and general health maladies including infectious, immune, inflammatory, metabolic and aging linkages and human behavior such as diet, tobacco and opioid use, in patient assessment and management decisions.
Formulate research questions and hypotheses to guide the design of a research study that explores an unanswered research question pertinent to clinical dentistry.
Develop a protocol for implementing an evidence-based research study including a detailed literature review, and apply evidence-based practice principles to a patient care scenario.
Apply a critical appraisal process to find, assess and disseminate evidence pertinent to clinical research questions.
Conduct a critical appraisal of evidence for an assigned research question and present the appraisal via a Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) presentation.
Apply effective teaching methods in classrooms and the clinic.
Apply effective clinical assisting methods during patient care.
Sample Plan of Study
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Fall Semester
Teaching and Clinical Assisting Methods I (TCAM I)
3
Foundations and Advancements in Clinical Dentistry I (FACD I)
3
Contemporary Research Methods I (CRM I)
3
Critical Appraisal of Dental Literature I (CADL I)
3
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Spring Semester
Teaching and Clinical Assisting Methods II (TCAM II)
3 Foundations and Advancements in Clinical Dentistry II (FACD II)
3
Contemporary Research Methods II (CRM II)
3
Critical Appraisal of Dental Literature II (CADL II)
3
Total Credit Hours
24