DENT:4000 Pre-Dental Academy 0 s.h.

Hands-on experience for undergraduate students interested in dentistry; interaction with faculty, residents, and current students in simulation clinic; didactic sessions; admissions information; changing health care environment, digital dentistry, dental esthetics, introduction to dental specialties, drilling and filling. Offered summer session.

DENT:8100 First-Year Continuing Session arr.

DENT:8110 Dental First-Year UI Interprofessional Education 0 s.h.

Application of previously learned concepts to relevant health care experiences using interprofessional skills and team-based health care concepts; development of skills related to leadership in health care teams, pain management from an interprofessional team, and application of ethics and professionalism concepts; online modules and group activities.

DENT:8200 Second-Year Continuing Session arr.

DENT:8210 Dental Second-Year Interprofessional Education 0 s.h.

Application of previously learned concepts to relevant health care experiences using interprofessional skills and team-based health care concepts; development of skills related to leadership in health care teams, pain management from an interprofessional team, and application of ethics and professionalism concepts; online modules and group activities.

DENT:8220 Dental Independent Study arr.

Introduction to dental topics on the basic principles of dentistry in preparation for seminars, discussion sessions, and patient care. The Iowa Dental Advanced Standing Program offers dentists trained outside the United States the opportunity to earn a CODA (Commission on Dental Accreditation) accredited DDS degree. Recommendations: enrollment in the Iowa Dental Advanced Standing Program.

DENT:8300 Third-Year Continuing Session arr.

DENT:8360 Introduction to Clinical Orofacial Pain 1 s.h.

Major sources and types of orofacial pain; students build knowledge and skills to recognize temporomandibular disorders and other common orofacial pain conditions, differentiate odontogenic from nonodontogenic orofacial pain, and apply interdisciplinary pain management concept in developing appropriate patient management plan.

DENT:8371 Quality Assurance I 1 s.h.

Patient management, record writing skills, and quality assurance concepts; students coordinate treatment, patient relations, and issues of quality assurance for a group of patients; ethical and moral dilemmas in relation to dental practice.

DENT:8372 Quality Assurance II 1 s.h.

Continuation of DENT:8371; patient management, record writing skills, and quality assurance concepts; students coordinate treatment, patient relations, and issues of quality assurance for a group of patients; ethical and moral dilemmas in relation to dental practice.

DENT:8400 Fourth-Year Lectures and Clinics arr.

DENT:8485 Clinical Admissions Emergency 2 s.h.

Clinical evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with dental emergencies; patient assessment and referral to appropriate department for treatment.

DENT:8489 Clinical Practice and Professionalism V 1 s.h.

Quality assurance from viewpoint of practicing dentist, dental educator, dental epidemiologist, court system; analysis of senior dental practice in relation to quality assurance criteria.

DENT:9000 Advanced Clinical Comprehensive Dentistry 0 s.h.

Clinical experience for professional improvement. Requirements: dental degree.