Dental care for patients with special needs, 3 Credits

Contents

The course is given for exchange students within the dentistry programme, during the 9th semester.

Clinical aspects of the physiology of respiration and circulation.
Basic cardiology, lung medicine, haematology, and endocrinology and their clinical importance for the dental treatment.
Somatic and psychiatric diseases, their treatment and their importance for the clinical assessment and treatment decision of the odontological treatment of patients in different ages.
Dental care of psychiatric ill patients.
Clinical aspects of medical risk assessment.
Anaesthesiology and sedation of patients with dental fear.
 

Expected learning outcomes

The following learning outcomes should be achieved and on completion of the course, the student should have demonstrated:
Knowledge and understanding

• insight in current research and development within the areas internal medicine and medical psychology
• advanced knowledge regarding the relationship between the sick patients health status and its consequences for the dental treatment.

Skills and ability

• ability to apply and evaluate knowledge regarding somatic and psychiatric diseases and how the treatment of these diseases might affect the odontological treatment
• ability to apply this knowledge and to motivate her/his position in the clinical activity
• show understanding for the factors that affect the treatment of patients with psychiatric illness and how this affects the planning of the dental treatment for these patients
• show understanding for the factors of crucial importance at the treatment planning and treatment of patients with dental fear.

Judgement and approach

• ability to work in team and co-operate with dental personnel with focus on dental hygienists
• ability to with a comprehensive view and a professionally and ethically correct attitude, show an emphatic ability and to be able to communicate and establish a good contact with older and sick patients
• collaborate with personnel and representatives for the dental care and health care in the treatment of the old and sick patients

Required Knowledge

The student must have completed courses that correspond to previous courses carried out during the 1st-8th semester within the dentistry programme.

Form of instruction

The education is given through literature studies, lectures, and case-discussions.
At absence from compulsory parts, the teacher responsible for the course should be contacted and will decide how the missing part should be completed.
 

Examination modes

The students' knowledge and practical skills is assessed in seminars and presentations during te course.
To get the grade "Pass" the student must have attended the mandatory parts of the course and have passed the required clinical work. The grade concludes all assessments and is stated after the student has passed all parts of the course with “Pass”-results. A student who hasn't been able to attend during a compulsory element has the right to get an optional appointment.
After a consultation with the students' supervisor, the responsible examiner has the right to terminate the ongoing practice if the student shows deficient knowledge and approach and thereby constitutes a risk for the patient. The students practice is then cancelled and he/she receives the grade "Failed". When such a decision is made, the examiner has to offer a plan describing what the additional requirements are to gain the necessary knowledge to proceed with the clinical practice.
If the student has acquired the knowledge, attainment and approach that are required, the student has the right to start a new clinical practice period. During practice the student has the right to change examiner. A written request to change examiner has to be submitted to the Programme council for the Odontological Programmes (PRO).