TAS701 - INTRODUCTION TO DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INTRODUCTION TO DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH | TAS701 | 1st Semester | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Prequisites | NONE | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Must | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Brain Storming | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Bahar Güçiz Doğan, Prof. Meryem Uzamış Tekçiçek; Prof. Ruya Yazıcı, Assoc. Prof. Esra Ergin | |||||
| Course objective | -To provide students with an owerview of the principles, philosophy and strategies underpinning the field of Dental Public Health -To provide students with an understanding of the structure of dental health care systems and the components of dental public health infrastructure - To teach the proposal development methods for dental public health problems with evidence based viewpoint | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | -Dental public health philosophy, principles and strategies -The primary dental health care approaches -Determining the dental public health problems with evidence based perspective and problem based solution development | |||||
| References | 1-Concepts in Dental Public Health [Ed] Jill Mason.( 2nd ed), 2010 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer business, Philadelphia,USA | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | What is public health? What are the public health problems? |
| Week 2 | What is the philosophy of dental public health and what are the dental public health problems? What are the differences between clinical dentistry and public health dentistry? |
| Week 3 | Basic principles of dental public health |
| Week 4 | Components of the Dental Public Health Infrastructure: 1) Health care management systems |
| Week 5 | Components of the Dental Public Health Infrastructure: 2) Education |
| Week 6 | Components of the Dental Public Health Infrastructure: 3) Dental workforce |
| Week 7 | Preventive programmes in dental public health |
| Week 8 | Literature Presentation and Discussion |
| Week 9 | Dental public health delivery systems |
| Week 10 | What are the dental public health accomplishements and how they be achieved? What are the dental public health challenges? |
| Week 11 | Questioning dental public health with evidence based approach (ethiology, diagnosis, prognosis, treatments) |
| Week 12 | Literature seearch for evidence, organizing evidence hierarchy |
| Week 13 | Evidence based problem solving / proposal development |
| Week 14 | Literature Presentation and Discussion |
| Week 15 | Evaluation |
| Week 16 | Final Exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 10 | 20 |
| Presentation | 2 | 20 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 |
| Final exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 12 | 40 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 16 | 16 |
| Total Workload | 54 | 33 | 120 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Has up to date and universal information about the dental public health and can evaluate, develop and deepen them by considering countries conditions. | X | ||||
| 2. Comprehends, interpret and evaluates interdisciplinary interaction in dental public health. | X | ||||
| 3. Competent in program development, management and evaluation in the subjects related with dental oral health. | X | ||||
| 4. Knows the methods used in dental public health research and have information about the statistical methods used in researches. | X | ||||
| 5. Uses his/her theoretical and practical knowledge about dental public health | X | ||||
| 6. Determines the oral health problems in the public by using appropriate methods and tools with the knowledge and skills acquired in dental public health, develops policies and strategies related to them and produces solutions. | X | ||||
| 7. Plans, conducts, analyzes studies in the files of dental public health and by preparing reports of his/her studies, makes presentations and publications. | X | ||||
| 8. Participates in team work and shares information about the problems related to public dental health. | X | ||||
| 9. Knows the principles of scientific and professional ethics in his/her studies in the field of dental public oral health and in his/her all kinds of academic productions and act accordingly. | X | ||||
| 10. He/she contributes to national and international health policy studies, from a dental oral health perspective. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest