This course is the clinical course that encompasses the scope of clinical pediatric dentistry.
During the second and third year as individual clinical skills develop, students progress to manage children with more complex special health care needs, including in-patients, operating room patients and patients undergoing conscious sedation procedures. Students gain extensive experience in the team management approach to patient care while interacting and coordinating with other medical departments within the hospitals and with outside clinics and practitioners. This course will also develops competency in interceptive orthodontic clinical training which will consists of diagnosis, record taking, treatment planning in the primary and mixed dentitions using removable or simple fixed appliances. It will include treatment of malocclusions, and to render appropriate orthodontic treatment or refer.
During this clinical training period over 3 years, students will present minimum of 6 completed cases with the sequence of records illustrated by photographs, radiographs and models as appropriate. They should indicate management and treatment success over a minimum period of follow up of 12 months.
As Clinical Pediatric Dentistry V and VI are culminating and final year clinical training courses, qualitative assessments of the students will be performed as capstone. This will enable students to put into practice the knowledge and skills that they acquired from these courses to develop real life clinical solutions. Capstone in Clinical Pediatric Dentistry V will be assessed through sedation and general anesthesia rotations evaluation and case based discussion (CBD) for grand rounds