Year 3

This primarily clinical course initiates the process of the learner becoming a competent beginning dental practitioner in Canada. This course provides exposure and experience in all clinical disciplines of oral health care for patients of all ages, including exposure to various community, public health, and distributed learning experiences.
Lectures (Orientation) 35 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic up to 650 hours; Seminars 68 hours; Community Service Learning 6 hours; Hospital Rotation 48 hours (Total up to 759 hours)

This course provides the required knowledge for the predictable and successful diagnoses and treatment planning of patients through effective communication, accurate and appropriate clinical and radiographic examinations, and testing. Clinical cases and publications will illustrate the decision making pathway for the diagnosis and treatment planning through patient-centered care.
Lectures 19 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours; Group Work 4 hours (Total 23 hours)

The course will review the process of diagnosis and treatment planning of orthodontic problems as it gets into specific orthodontic therapy for the diverse types of problems (i.e. non-skeletal, skeletal, mixed dentition, permanent dentition) which includes the discussion of comprehensive orthodontic treatment, retention and treatment for adult patients. The diagnosis and treatment planning practice modules will provide with preclinical experience in preparation for the clinical activities.
Lectures 15 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours; Practice Modules 3 hours (Total 18 hours)

This course is designed to integrate and build up on the fundamental knowledge and skills learned over the first 2 years in prosthodontics, operative dentistry, endodontics, occlusion, and biomaterials. Application of knowledge through case-based studies, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and problem-based learning. The flow of topics takes a gradual progression from covering commonly encountered cases in clinics like the use of CAMBRA, deep caries management to more complicated issues like traumatology, advanced esthetic dentistry, and discussing fixed removable prosthesis. Removable prosthodontics lectures in this course are to cover topics not previously discussed in previous years. Great emphasis will be placed on EBD, following guidelines, and assignments that foster reflection and life-long learning skills.
Lectures 34 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours (Total 34 hours)

This course provides the dental students the required knowledge for the dental management of patients through an understanding of various patient factors and influences, with a focus on social determinants of health, patient-centered care, cultural sensitivity and mental health.
Lectures 7 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours; Group Work 3 hours (Total 10 hours)

Focuses on oral diagnosis and treatment planning of a variety of lesions affecting the soft and hard tissue lesions affection the head and neck.
Lectures 26 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours (Total 26 hours)

Paediatric Dentistry course program consists of comprehensive management of evidence based management of dental problems in children. The lecture and clinical course will place emphasis to give students the best experience in diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment procedures in children.
Lectures 24 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours; Other (Examination) 2 hours (Total 26 hours)

This integrated course combines oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology to cover a variety of diseases that affect the hard and soft tissues of the mouth, head and neck.
Lectures 24 hours; Labs 9 hours; Clinic 0 hours; Other (Examination) 7 hours (Total 40 hours)

Objectives of this course are 1) Understanding of the principles of OMFS; 2) Organized, problem solving including:  surgical problem, dental history, medical history and clinical findings; 3) Comprehensive diagnosis and treatment planning; 4) Acquisition of technical skills requisite to the efficient execution of the treatment plan.
Lectures 42 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours (Total 42 hours)

To provide a working didactic and clinical foundation for the practice of periodontology for the general practitioner.
Lectures 26 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinical Experience (Total 26 hours)

This third-year program includes videos and slides in the management of maxillofacial and dental trauma. It is intended to expose students to the terminology, instruments and techniques of clinical maxillofacial traumatology BEFORE actual clinical experience on patients.
Lectures 10 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours (Total 10 hours)