An initial exposure to clinical dentistry in the UBC dental clinic and the practicing community. In problem-based tutorials and clinical settings, students will be introduced to professional behaviour, critical evaluation of literature, dental ergonomics, infection control, patient assessment, and the fundamentals of oral disease. An initial exposure to clinical dentistry in the UBC dental clinic and the practicing community. In problem-based tutorials and clinical settings, students will be introduced to professional behaviour, critical evaluation of literature, dental ergonomics, infection control, patient assessment and the fundamentals of oral disease. An integrated clinical and didactic introduction to irreversible oral clinical procedures.
Students work as team members in clinical group practices.
Didactic learning will occur in a hybrid problem-based format. May be taken as a corequisite. A continuing integrated clinical, affective and cognitive environment where students participate in group practices, and assume more individual practice responsibilities. More advanced clinical procedures will be learned in clinical simulation. May be taken as corequisite.