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Dental Hygiene
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Summary of the Profile
General Description:
Objective(s) of a study programme:
To train independently decisions making specialists, which will work independently or in a team with dentists and give professional oral health services, including oral health status investigation, 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, dental assistants and public health specialists.
2. Perform qualitative services and flexibly react to the dynamic of service needs.
3. Demonstrate understanding of safety at work principles and hygiene requirements and ensure safety of the patients’ ethical and law interests.
4. Evaluate patients’ oral and general health.
5. Perform universal services, reflecting modern science and technological novelties for the patients with different and special needs.
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:
Teaching and learning activities are 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.
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
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 Hygienist’s Work Environment, Ergonomics and Teamwork, 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, Patient’s Health Behavior Correction and Management, General Biochemistry and Immunology, Professional Dental Hygiene I, Adults’ Oral and Dental Diseases and Anesthesia, First Medical Aid and Injections, Oral Health Research Methods, Epidemiology of Oral Diseases, Public Health, Oral Health and Behavior Course Paper, Diseases of Oral Mucosa and Periodontology, Professional Dental Hygiene II, Work Organization and Quality Management in Dental Clinic, Dental Radiology, Professional Dental Hygiene III, Oral Health Promoting Behavior Development in the Community, Professional Dental Hygiene IV, Orthopedic Dentistry, Orthodontics and Implantology.
Optional subjects (9 credits).
Practices (35 credits): Prevention Oral Diseases Practice, Working with a Patient Practice I, Working with a Patient Practice II, Working with a Patient and Community Practice, 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:
Dental hygiene study programme is emphasized on oral health promotion in the community aspect, oriented towards Scandinavian oral disease prevention model.
Dental hygiene study programme students are actively involved in unique scientific research aiming to assess oral health-related quality of life in the different community groups.
Access to professional activity or further study:
Access to professional activity:
The acquired qualification gives the right to work in accordance with the professional qualification of a dental hygienist in dental care (assistance) institutions that have a dental care (assistance) institution license to provide dental hygienist services in public health offices, polyclinics, primary health care centers, etc.
Access to further study:
Access to the second cycle studies upon meeting requirements set by the accepting higher education institution.
