Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD)
The program will accomplish its goals through academic work in four themes and two threads, which are woven throughout the four years of the program. The program includes a variety of educational formats to deliver the curricula, including problem-based learning sessions, team-based learning, independent study, seminars, experiential learning opportunities, traditional lectures, laboratories, standardized patient experiences, and patient-based comprehensive care. An important goal of the curriculum is to help students become better prepared in independent learning, interprofessional practice, critical thinking skills, and the use of evidence. The curriculum includes the following themes and threads:
Themes
Health and Well-Being
This theme contains all curricula -- both didactic and clinical -- that apply to health and the normal structure and functioning of the body and of the oral complex. The traditional content areas of physiology, biochemistry, anatomy, histology, among other dental science classes, are integrated through cases to form a better bridge between the basic sciences and the clinical sciences.
Disease Processes
The Disease Processes theme includes content related to general and oral diseases. These topics are often melded with healthy structure and function content to provide students with a global perspective of the implications of disease on usual functioning.
Restoration of Health
This theme contains content related to therapies necessary for treatment of medical disease and dental disease. A focus on restoring oral health is accomplished through virtual reality clinical skills training, training on models and progression to comprehensive dental care in conjunction with didactic knowledge.
Maintenance of Health
The Maintenance of Health theme focuses on a curriculum which explores strategies for preserving health through general and oral health therapies, patient education, disease risk assessment, and disease prevention. This theme provides a viewpoint from which students can develop life-long care plans for their patients.
Threads
Inquiry
This thread that runs throughout the four-year program supports student growth in skills in clinical decision making. Students develop an understanding of what scientific evidence is, how to make clinical decisions and to value scientific discovery in all aspects of dentistry.
Leadership
This thread contains curriculum for the development of students as ethical, sensitive, caring practitioners who are stewards of oral health of the individual patient, the community, and society. An important focus in Leadership curriculum is content that helps students advance in their role as a professional. It also supports the integration of all students into the practice management curriculum centered within their clinical preceptor groups.
Years
Year 1
This year includes curriculum describing normal healthy functioning and disease processes. Basic science content is taught in the context of clinical cases. Foundational work in understanding human structure and function is paired with learning about disease. Dental clinical sciences study the foundational elements of oral health.
Year 2
This year continues with an integrated approach to curricula in health and disease with an emphasis on the development of dental clinical skills. Further development of students as clinicians proceeds with their involvement in the clinical preceptor groups. Students will make a transition to increasing patient-centered clinical care as they demonstrate competency in clinical skills and didactic knowledge.
Year 3
This year includes didactic work related to advancing levels of knowledge and clinical experience. Students spend time in didactic classes that are directly related to clinical practice and in rotations to specialty clinical areas while accomplishing comprehensive patient care.
Year 4
Students gain clinical experience in the Comprehensive Care Clinics and finish didactic work which may include enrichment courses. They participate in practice management activities of their preceptor group, developing critical skills for general practice dentistry.
Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD)
First Year Courses
First Term | ||
DSPR 136 | Cariology | 1 |
DSPR 139 | Neoplasia and Genetics | 1 |
HEWB 121 | Foundations of Life Science | 4.5 |
HEWB 130 | Oral Histology | 1.5 |
HWDP 131 | Heart and Lungs in Health and Disease | 4.5 |
LDRS 101 | Collaborative Practice I A | 1.5 |
LDRS 111 | Epidemiology for Public Health and Clinical Practice | 2.5 |
MAHE 141 | Preventive Periodontics | 1 |
MAHE 144 | Preventive Periodontics Clinic (graded in the spring) | 1 |
MAHE 145 | ACE: Outreach Preventive Dentistry | 2 |
REHE 151 | Dental Anatomy | 3 |
REHE 153 | Dental Anatomy Laboratory | 1 |
Second Term | ||
HEWB 123 | Facial Growth | 1.5 |
HEWB 124 | Masticatory Dynamics | 2 |
HEWB 126 | Masticatory Dynamics Lab | 1.5 |
HEWB 128 | Body as Host | 4 |
HEWB 134 | Head and Neck Structure and Function | 4.5 |
HWDP 142 | Gastrointestinal System in Health and Disease | 2 |
LDRS 102 | Collaborative Practice I B | 1.5 |
LDRS 118 | Ergonomics | .5 |
MAHE 144 | Preventive Periodontics Clinic | 1 |
MAHE 147 | ACE Clinical Outreach Preventive Dentistry | 2 |
REHE 120 | Introduction to Radiography | 1.5 |
REHE 152 | Basic Procedures in Fixed Prosthodontics | 1 |
REHE 154 | Basic Procedures in Fixed Prosthodontics Lab | 1 |
REHE 158 | Dental Materials I | .5 |
REHE 162 | Basic Procedures in Restorative Dentistry I | .5 |
REHE 172 | Basic Procedures in Restorative Dentistry I Lab | 1 |
Second Year Courses
First Term | ||
HWDP 232 | Renal and Hematologic Systems in Health and Disease | 2 |
HWDP 243 | Endocrine and Reproductive Systems in Health and Disease | 1.5 |
HWDP 245 | Musculoskeletal System in Health and Disease | 1.5 |
HWDP 246 | Neuroscience in Health and Disease | 2 |
MAHE 242 | Periodontics (graded in the spring) | 1 |
REHE 257 | Prosthodontic Technology | 2 |
REHE 267 | Prosthodontic Technology Lab | 2 |
REHE 259 | Basic Procedures in Fixed Prosthodontics II | 1 |
REHE 269 | Basic Procedure Fixed Prosthodontics II Lab | 1.5 |
REHE 262 | Basic Procedures in Restorative Dentistry II | 1 |
REHE 272 | Basic Procedures in Restorative Dentistry II Lab | 1 |
REHE 264 | Endodontics | .5 |
REHE 274 | Endodontics Lab | 1 |
REMA 261 | Preclinical Orthodontics | 1 |
Second Term | ||
DSPR 232 | Periodontics | 1 |
DSPR 234 | Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology | 3 |
INQU 202 | Introduction to Medicine: Patient Assessment | 1.5 |
MAHE 214 | ACE: Family First | 1 |
MAHE 242 | Periodontics | 1 |
REHE 252 | Pain Control | 1 |
REHE 253 | Basic Procedures in Esthetics | 1 |
REHE 263 | Basic Procedure in Esthetics Lab | .5 |
REHE 254 | Pharmacology | 4 |
REHE 256 | Radiologic Interpretation | 1 |
REHE 258 | Principles of Treatment Planning I | 1 |
REHE 260 | Basic Procedures in Fixed Prosthodontics III | .5 |
REHE 270 | Basic Procedure Fixed Prosthodontics III Lab | 1 |
REHE 266 | Partial Denture Design | 3 |
REHE 276 | Partial Denture Design Lab | 2 |
REHE 268 | Basic Procedures Competency | 2 |
REMA 270 | Introduction to Pediatrics | 1 |
Third Year Courses
Summer Term | ||
DSPR 333 | Management of Medical Emergencies | .5 |
DSRE 335 | Clinical Pharmacology | 1.5 |
DSRE 395 | Introduction to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | .5 |
HEWB 349 | Dentofacial Morphology | 1 |
LDRS 313 | Dental Patient Management/Risk Management | 1 |
REHE 358 | Dental Materials II | .5 |
First Term | ||
COMP 387 | General Practice Dentistry A | 2.5 |
COMP 389 | General Practice Dentistry B | 2.5 |
DSPR 341 | Oral Diagnosis and Radiology | 2 |
DSPR 344 | Principles of Medicine | .5 |
DSRE 391 | Endodontics | 1 |
DSRE 393 | Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery I | 1 |
LDRS 317 | Dental Auxiliary Management | .5 |
REHE 351 | Surgical Periodontics | 1 |
REHE 353 | Principles of Treatment Planning II | 1 |
REHE 355 | Esthetic Dentistry | 1 |
REHE 360 | Implant Dentistry | 1 |
Second Term | ||
COMP 378 | Pediatric Dentistry Clinic | 1.5 |
COMP 390 | General Practice Dentistry A | 2.5 |
COMP 394 | General Practice Dentistry B | 2.5 |
DSPR 342 | Oral Cancer Diagnosis | 1 |
DSRE 370 | Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery II | 1 |
DSRE 374 | Fixed Prosthodontics | 1 |
DSRE 392 | Nitrous Oxide and Conscious Sedation | .5 |
DSRE 396 | Temporomandibular Disorders and Occlusion | 2 |
LDRS 310 | Professional Development | 1 |
LDRS 316 | Practice Management I | 1 |
MAHE 340 | Nutrition for Dentistry | 1 |
REHE 362 | Clinical Application of CAD/CAM Technologies | .5 |
REMA 380 | Introduction to Geriatric Dentistry | 1 |
Fourth Year Courses
Summer Term | ||
COMP 322 | Surgical Periodontics | 1 |
COMP 358 | Clinical Oral Surgery I | 1 |
COMP 384 | General Dentistry Clinical Qualifying | 1 |
COMP 386 | Quality Assurance | 1 |
LDRS 415 | Practice Management II | 1.5 |
REHE 413 | Advanced Implant Dentistry I | 1 |
First Term | ||
COMP 417 | Community Oral Health Capstone Experience (graded in the spring) | 1.5 |
COMP 422 | Periodontics (graded in the spring) | .5 |
COMP 427 | Oral Diagnosis and Treatment Planning | 1 |
COMP 428 | Oral Diagnosis and Radiology (graded in the spring) | .5 |
COMP 448 | Endodontics (graded in the spring) | 2 |
COMP 458 | Clinical Oral Surgery II (graded in the spring) | 1 |
COMP 464 | Operative Dentistry (graded in the spring) | 2.5 |
COMP 468 | Removable Prosthodontics (graded in the spring) | 1.5 |
COMP 474 | Fixed Prosthodontics (graded in the spring) | 2.5 |
COMP 478 | Pediatric Dentistry (graded in the spring) | 1.5 |
COMP 480 | Clinical Geriatric Dentistry (graded in the spring) | .5 |
COMP 482 | Clinical Orthodontics (graded in the spring) | 1 |
COMP 487 | General Practice Dentistry A | 2.5 |
COMP 489 | General Practice Dentistry B | 2.5 |
COMP 492 | General Dentistry Clinical Competency (Graded in Spring) | .5 |
LDRS 416 | Practice Management III | 1.5 |
LDRS 420 | Jurisprudence and Professional Ethical Responsibility | .5 |
REHE 400 | Regional Board Preparation | .5 |
REHE 421 | Periodontal Medicine and Cases | 1 |
REHE 455 | General Anesthesia, Oral Surgery | .5 |
REHE 482 | Orthodontics | 1 |
REHE 488 | Case Presentations I | 1 |
Second Term | ||
COMP 417 | Community Oral Health Capstone Experience | 1.5 |
COMP 422 | Periodontics | .5 |
COMP 428 | Oral Diagnosis and Radiology | .5 |
COMP 448 | Endodontics | 2 |
COMP 458 | Clinical Oral Surgery II | 1 |
COMP 464 | Operative Dentistry | 2.5 |
COMP 468 | Removable Prosthodontics | 1.5 |
COMP 474 | Fixed Prosthodontics | 2.5 |
COMP 478 | Pediatric Dentistry | 1.5 |
COMP 480 | Clinical Geriatric Dentistry | .5 |
COMP 482 | Clinical Orthodontics | 1 |
COMP 490 | General Practice Dentistry A | 2.5 |
COMP 492 | General Dentistry Clinical Competency | .5 |
COMP 494 | General Practice Dentistry B | 2.5 |
COMP 498 | Quality Assurance | 1 |
REHE 414 | Advanced Implant Dentistry II | 1 |
REHE 489 | Case Presentations II | 1 |