Foundations of Dental Medicine
Course Director: Ashland Doomes and Stuart Taylor
Credits: 2
Quarters/Yr of Program: Autumn / 1
Course Overview
This course promotes the development of clinical skills that form the basis of patient-centered communication, history-taking and physical assessment, and medical record documentation. Students learn interactively through classroom lecture sessions, small group discussions, group work and case activities. They also develop culturally appropriate basic skills through an e-learning program.
Learning Objectives
The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
1. Obtain a comprehensive medical, dental, behavioral history.
2. Demonstrate patient-centered communication skills for eliciting and exchanging information, identifying health priorities, and making decisions about treatment.
3. Identify social and cultural contributors to individual patients’ health and health behaviors.
4. Adapted a patient interview to the clinical setting and to patients’ needs across the lifecycle, including geriatric and adolescent patients.
5. Describe the importance and techniques of communicating effectively with patients in a culturally sensitive manner with recognition of the impact of implicit biases.
6. Explain the need for eliciting an accurate substance-use history during a dental examination.
7. Document a patient’s history and examination (including the problem list) in a standard and organized manner.
8. Demonstrate a practice of professional reflection.
9. Utilize principles of ethics to analyze selected cases of patient-dentist interactions.
10. Describe concepts related to health inequities for people from historically excluded groups.
11. Apply principles of cultural humility to health care.
UWSOD Competencies: C–01, C–02, C–03, C–04, C–05, C–06, C–09, C–10, C–11, C–12, C–13, C–14, C–15, C- 16, C-17, C-18, C-23, C-24, C-26, C-29, C-30, C-31, CE-02, CE-03, CE-05, CE–06, CE–07
Date last updated: 2022-12-05