CDENT 5372 - ETHICS AND BEHAVIORAL DENTISTRY

Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
In this course, we will provide students with the communication and behavioral skills and the foundation in ethical principles needed to become successful clinicians. Communication and interpersonal skills, more than technical expertise, result in the most satisfied patients. In addition, students who acquire these interpersonal and behavioral skills have easier dentist-patient interactions and are able to provide care ethically. There is an ethical component in all patient care; until you have been exposed to it, it is easy to be unaware. In this course, we provide evidence-based, behavioral solutions to a range of common oral health problems and tools to analyze the ethical dimensions of patient care. We incorporate hands-on practice to build skills in these areas and emphasize their application. We designed this upper-level course to be taken in conjunction with clinical practice, which provides you opportunities to practice with your patients the behavioral and ethical reasoning skills discussed in class. The course consists of readings and videos, lectures, practice with standardized patients, assignments, small group discussion sessions, and class discussion. Because class sessions are discussion-based, if we are remote, we expect that you will keep your camera on during the class period. Our overall goals are to 1) increase your awareness of the behavioral and ethical components of oral health care; and 2) strengthen the behavioral and ethical reasoning skills you use to provide oral health care.
Academic Career: Dental Medicine
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad HSU Basis

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