Elective seminar offered to interested DS3 students. Each week a different topic in pediatric dentistry will be covered. Students will be expected to read and discuss relevant, current, peer reviewed journal articles and to complete one final assignment.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This course is offered to eligible students who wish to travel for one week to Trifinio, Guatemala to provide comprehensive dental care at the CU Center for Global Health's Trifinio Health Clinic. Department consent required.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This course is designed to make the student more familiar with the normal periodontium, to supplement current surgical periodontics knowledge, and to reiterate important concepts regarding the epidemiology, etiology, and pathogenesis of periodontal disease. Requirement: Department consent required.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

Provides dental students exposure to the periodontal specialty of dentistry. Provides dental students exposure to medically complex patients and how these patients are treated. It allows observation in complex treatment planning, surgical & non-surgical periodontal procedures, simple & complex extractions, & intravenous moderate sedation.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Observation, active listening, accurate description and interpretation are essential clinical skills. To develop these skills, visual and performance art provide a creative, safe and culturally diverse environment for refining these abilities. Participation in experiential and expert guided activities in galleries frame the experience.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course expands knowledge and skills in community-based dental care and strengthens understanding of public health issues and service. Topics to be reinforced include the importance of community engagement, service, and equity as they relate to oral health.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

This course will cover many aspects of global health and oral health of low-resource populations. Topics covered are global burden of disease, global health policy, oral health for refugee and immigrant populations and ethics and sustainability related to humanitarian work.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course expands knowledge in the principles and practice of dental public health. Topics covered include epidemiology, health sciences research, data science, population health informatics, and a deeper exploration of vulnerable/underserved populations.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course provides introductory and foundational information on the provision of health care and related issues in rural settings through a community dentistry lens. This course is the first of a four-part series that is designed to prepare dental students to become rural practice-ready upon graduation.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course is a continuation in the coverage of information on the provision of health care and related issues in rural settings through a community dentistry lens. This course is the second of a four-part series that is designed to prepare dental students to become rural practice-ready upon graduation.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course provides advance information, guidance, and service learning in the provision of health care and related issues in rural settings through a community dentistry lens. This course is the third of a four-part series that is designed to prepare dental students to become rural practice-ready upon graduation.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course provides advance information, mentoring, and service learning in the provision of health care and related issues in rural settings through a community dentistry lens. This course is the fourth of a four-part series that is designed to prepare dental students to become rural practice-ready upon graduation.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Spring.

This elective provides students the opportunity for a faculty-led international learning opportunity to Roatan, Honduras. Students will learn about the oral health care delivery system in a low-income country.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This elective provides students the opportunity for a faculty-led international learning opportunity in Vitoria, Brazil. Students will learn about the Brazilian dental education system, delivery of dental care in Brazil, and traveling to various community sites observing how dental care is provided in different settings. Additionally, students will engage in interprofessional learning activities.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

This elective is designed to meet the needs of the dental student who would like to expand their understanding of current concepts in One Health as it applies to oral health. This course is designed as a collaborative online international learning course (COIL) and will be conducted in partnership with the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória in Brazil.

Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory w/IP

Typically Offered: Fall.