Clinical in Medicine: Oral Medicine 526

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

1.) To assess a patient's health status as it relates to the clinical dental management of patients. We expect this course will aid in your ability to:

a) - Know what information you should gather through observation and/or detect following review of a patient's medical history.

b) - Know the potential oral manifestations of systemic diseases.

c) - Know what you will need to observe/monitor relative to a patient's clinical responses to dental treatment.

2.) Understand the impact of the patient's medical health on the delivery of routine dental care, including how to adjust, modify, etc. the type and timing of dental treatment based on the patient's medical status.

3.) Understand how dental health/disease impacts the patient's medical status and know how to prioritize and modify dental care in order to provide the most favorable outcome relative to the patient's overall health.

Course Format: Learning in this course will be through the combination of a) reading assignments (assigned text book and other supportive handout materials assigned by instructors), b) class lectures, c) interviewing patients in emergency clinic, reviewing medical histories, and preparing a health history summary, and d) of course, studying for and taking of mid terms and final examinations .

Lectures: A lecture schedule is provided that lists the dates, times, topics, and lecturers for the entire quarter. The format for each lecture is left to the discretion of each lecturer. Lectures will run from 12:30 to 2:20 PM on Fridays, from January 9 through March 13, 2009.

Reading: (see separate listing of Reading Assignments with Lecture Schedule)

Reading assignments for this course will be taken from the required text book for this course and handouts.

Required text: 1) The main text for the Clinical Medicine section of the course is: Little, Falace, Miller and Rhodus: Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient, 7th edition, 2007. This is an excellent text and reference for not only this class, but should be useful and accurate for many years into the future. It provides: a) a concise review of medical conditions, b) current medical management strategies for medical conditions, c) the impact of medical conditions on the oral cavity, and d) how dental treatment needs to be modified in light of the medical condition. Note: the 7th edition has been significantly revised from the 6^th and all other earlier versions and these earlier editions will not substitute for the assigned 7th edition.

Additional reading materials required for this course will be provided as PDF files (see Lecture Schedule and Readding Assignments, BONJ readings) or will be available through University Bookstore.

Students are encouraged to completed the reading assignments prior to lectures if possible. The reading assignments are listed by date and topic after the lecture schedule. Additional handouts may be provided by instructors and may include title slide material or materials to augment or aid in note taking. When possible these have been included in your course syllabus. Additional handouts may be distributed throughout the course as needed.