Year 4

This primarily clinical course completes 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 19 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic up to 552 hours; Seminars 58 hours; Community Service Learning 16 hours; Hospital Rounds 48 hours (Total up to 645 hours)

This course integrates concepts and procedures related to endodontics, operative dentistry and prosthodontics.
Lectures 26 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours (Total 26 hours)

Case-based learning in oral medicine; management of the medically-complex patient, forensic dentistry; clinical epidemiology.
Lectures 17 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours (Total 17 hours)

These case-based lectures provide practical interpretive experience of various diseases, including inflammation, benign, and malignant processes. The course emphasizes a systematic approach to radiographic interpretation and the development of differential diagnoses through a structured algorithm.
Lectures 12 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours (Total 12 hours)

The fourth-year program is a direct continuation of the third-year program with consolidation of the basic principles of Oral Surgery and their application to increasingly complex case management.
Lectures 13 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours (Total 13 hours)

The course will review and ensure the clinical application of the new classifications of periodontal and peri-implant diseases and conditions, understanding and clinical application the principles of interactions between the restorative dentistry and periodontics, and introduce the class to evidence-based treatment guidelines for periodontitis published by the EFP in 2021.
Lectures 12 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours (Total 12 hours)

This course addresses practice administration topics to assist in the transition from student to dentist. Emphasis will be placed on applying basic principles of practice administration, financial and personnel management to a dental practice and applying accepted principles of ethics and jurisprudence to maintain standards and advance knowledge and skills.
Lectures 8.5 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours; Seminars 5 hours; Other 1.5 hours (Total 15 hours)

This course in Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry will build upon the knowledge base and clinical skills established in previous years. For this reason, the Division will question or examine students on past course work. Additionally, the expectation is that students will carry forward information relevant to Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics but learned in other disciplines.
Lectures 8 hours; Labs 0 hours; Clinic 0 hours (Total 8 hours)