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Dental Assisting
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Summary of the Profile
Objective(s) of a study programme:
To train independently decisions making specialists, which will work in a team with dentists and dental hygienists and give professional oral health services, including assisting for different specialization dentists, dental hygienists, service giving, according patients’ needs, standardized evaluation of clinical or prevention service’s needs, systemic individual and community’s oral health promotion.
Learning outcomes:
1. Create confidentiality based non-conflict relationships with colleagues, patients and business partners, effectively work in a team with different specialization dentists, oral hygienists and public health specialists.
2. Demonstrate understanding of safety at work principles and hygiene requirements and ensure safety of the patients ‘ethical and law interests.
3. Evaluate specific patients ‘needs, related with oral health.
4. Prepare working place for dentist.
5. Assist for dentist during different dental procedures.
6. Evaluate by standardized methodology community ‘s oral health and effectiveness of interventions.
7. Systemically promote oral and general health in the community.
Activities of teaching and learning:
The study programme Odontological Care is oriented to the development of generic and specialist competences and creativity: lectures, seminars, discussions, individual and group projects, practice, case studies, public presentation and defense of projects, mind-maps, problem - solving reading, writing articles, information search and systematizing, etc.
Methods of student’s achievement assessment:
The assessment of the learning outcomes of the study programme is carried out during the semester and the examination session applying a cumulative assessment system. During the semester, the learning outcomes are assessed by means of interim assignments: tests, individual and group projects, case studies, information search and systematizing, discussions, essays, independent creative tasks, seminars, term papers, practice reports, examinations, final projects and / or qualifying exams.
Study subjects (127 credits): Health Philosophy / Health Sociology, Academic and Professional Literacy, Communication Psychology and Conflict Management, Professional Ethics and Bioethics, Oral Anatomy, Microbiology and Histology, Professional Foreign Language, Dental Assistant’s Working Environment and Ergonomics, Infection Control in Dentistry, General Anatomy and Physiology, Introduction to Dentistry and Pharmacology, Civil security, Internal Diseases and Oral Pathology, Individual Dental Hygiene, Children’s Oral and Dental Diseases, Dental Materials, General Biochemistry and Immunology, Cariesology and Endodontology, Adults’ Oral and Dental Diseases, Pain Control, First Aid and Injections, Oral Health Research Methods, Epidemiology of Oral Diseases, Public Health, Oral Health Promotion Course Paper, Diseases of Oral Mucosa and Periodontology, Teamwork and Modern Assisting for a Dentist, Work Organization and Quality Management in Dental Clinic, Dental Radiology, Outpatient Oral Surgery, Patient’s Oral Health Promoting Behavior, Working with the Patients Having Special Needs and Mobile Dental Service, Orthopedic Dentistry, Orthodontics and Implantology.
Optional subjects (9 credits).
Practices (35 credits): Infection control practice in dentistry, Assisting a dentist in the practice of professional activity, Practice of professional activity in a work team, Practice of the professional activity of a dental assistant, Final Practice. Qualification exam.
Graduation Paper (9 credits).
Specializations:
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Optional courses:
It is possible:
- to select optional subjects;
- to select alternative subjects.
Distinctive features of a study programme:
Odontological care study programme is emphasized on the patients’ oral health promotion.
Students are encouraged to participate in the volunteer activities, involving people having social and economic difficulties.
Access to professional activity:
Graduates can work as the dental assistants in licensed for oral health care organizations.
Access to further study:
Access to the second cycle studies upon meeting requirements set by the accepting higher education institution.
