4th Year Clinical Competencies
Course Director: Hai Zhang & Sara Gordon
Credits: 1
Quarters/Yr of Program: Spring / 4
Course Overview
The UW School of Dentistry must demonstrate that all our graduates are competent in clinical dentistry, as defined by UWSOD competency statements and those of the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA). Evidence of successful completion of each of these competency assessments is formally collected in this course. There are no formal class sessions. The competency assessments are completed in third- and fourth-year clinical and didactic courses. This course allows everyone, students and faculty alike, to keep track of students’ progress toward graduation and ensures that all students fulfill their requirements for graduation.
Learning Objectives
The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
1. UWSOD graduates can use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to design and apply research to the comprehensive care of patients.
2. UWSOD graduates can provide evidence-based patient care by accessing, critically appraising, interpreting, communicating, and applying appropriate research and lay and scientific literature.
3. UWSOD graduates can apply current biomedical science knowledge in the delivery of patient care.
4. UWSOD graduates can self-assess, exhibit professional competencies, and demonstrate professional values and capacities associated with self-directed, lifelong learning.
5. UWSOD graduates can apply ethical decision-making and professional decision-making concepts to provide and/or support oral healthcare.
6. UWSOD graduates can apply legal and regulatory concepts to provide and/or support oral healthcare.
7. UWSOD graduates can manage a diverse patient population and demonstrate appropriate interpersonal and communications skills to function successfully in a multicultural work environment.
8. UWSOD graduates can provide oral health care to patients of all ages and in all stages of life (including referral of complex cases and those outside the scope of general dental practice).
9. UWSOD graduates can assess and manage patients with special needs including physical and mental disabilities and dental fear (including referral of complex cases and those outside the scope of general dental practice).
10. UWSOD graduates can assess and diagnose patients, provide comprehensive treatment plans, determine prognosis, and achieve informed consent.
11. UWSOD graduates can screen patients and assess their risk for dental caries, periodontal disease, and head and neck cancer.
12. UWSOD graduates can manage the oral healthcare of patients with complex medical conditions (including referral of complex cases and those outside the scope of general dental practice).
13. UWSOD graduates can diagnose and manage temporomandibular disorders (including referral of complex cases and those outside the scope of general dental practice).
14. UWSOD graduates can diagnose and manage orofacial and dental pain (including referral of complex cases and those outside the scope of general dental practice).
15. UWSOD graduates can prescribe and administer pharmacological agents within the scope of general dental practice, demonstrating awareness of the impact of prescribing practices and substance use disorders.
16. UWSOD graduates can apply the basic principles and philosophies of practice management, describe models of oral health care delivery, and describe how to function successfully as the leader of the oral health care team.
17. UWSOD graduates can recognize the complexity of patient treatment and identify when referral is indicated.
18. UWSOD graduates can assess treatment outcomes and determine recall strategies and prognosis.
19. UWSOD graduates can achieve patient-centered approaches for promoting, improving and maintaining oral health by using the fundamental principles of behavioral sciences.
20. UWSOD graduates understand the roles of other members of the healthcare team and can communicate and collaborate with them and the patient to provide patient care.
21. UWSOD graduates can promote patient health and provide disease prevention strategies (including caries management).
22. UWSOD graduates can provide pain and anxiety management to dental patients in the scope of general dental practice (including selective referral of complex cases).
UWSOD graduates can diagnose and manage hard and soft tissue lesions of the orofacial region (including referral of complex cases and those outside the scope of general dental practice).
24. UWSOD graduates can perform hard and soft tissue surgery in the scope of general dental practice (including referral of complex cases).
25. UWSOD graduates can manage dental and medical emergencies in the scope of general dental practice (including appropriate EMS activation and referral of complex cases).
26. UWSOD graduates can restore the form and function of teeth using direct restorations and crowns.
27. UWSOD graduates can communicate and manage laboratory procedures in support of oral health care.
28. UWSOD graduates can replace teeth by restoring dental implants (but not necessarily placing them) and use fixed and removable prosthodontic therapies for natural dentition and edentulous spaces (including selective referral of complex cases).
29. UWSOD graduates can diagnose and manage periodontal disease (including selective referral of complex cases) 30. UWSOD graduates can diagnose and manage pulpal and periapical disease (including selective referral of complex cases, and referral of pediatric cases including pulpotomy).
31. UWSOD graduates can screen and refer patients for the management of malocclusion and alveolar space/development disorders.
UWSOD Competencies: C-01, C-10, C-03, C-02, C-09, C-06, C-05, C-11, C-30, C-12, C-13, C-31, C16, C-29, C-17, C-07, C-14, C-28, C-04, C-08, C-15, C-18, C-24, C-25, C-26, C-19, C-20, C-21, C-22, C-23, C-27
Date last updated: 2024-03-23