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Apr 27, 2024
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Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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DHYG 435 Community Dental Health V1 credit
Students continue providing clinical services to special populations at various extern sites using knowledge and skills developed in previous community dental health courses. This course enables the student to synthesize their knowledge about community health partnership programs through creating community project notebooks of their two-year clinical/health promotion community projects.
Prerequisites: DHYG 422 , DHYG 423 , DHYG 425 , and DHYG 426
Corequisites: DHYG 432 , DHYG 433 , DHYG 434 , and DHYG 438
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Discuss all phases of the clinical/health promotion community project
- Provide assistance to community groups and individuals seeking access to public dental services
- Demonstrate the ability to interpret, interact with, and respond to the differences and commonalities among people
- Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively in a group to advance a common goal
- Complete patient care at the clinical extern site
Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:
- be prepared to successfully complete all licensing exams required to practice in Washington State and obtain an entry-level position as a dental hygienist
- assess, plan, implement, and evaluate community-based health promotion and prevention programs to benefit the general population
Total Hours: 20 Lab or Clinical Hours: 20
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