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POSTDOCTORAL CERTIFICATE IN
PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY

The program of advanced education in Pediatric Dentistry is designed to prepare specialists to cope with the oral health problems of children and adolescents.
 

 

The educational experiences are aimed at expanding competency in the areas of behavior management, treatment of handicapped children, preventive and interceptive treatment of malocclusion, dental practice in the hospital setting, conscious sedation, general anesthesia, biostatistics, clinically applied basic sciences, dental education, application of modern concepts of prevention and comprehensive dental treatment.

The course of study runs for two (2) years beginning July 1st through June 30th, and may lead to a postdoctoral certificate and/or a master's degree, depending on whether the candidate fulfills the corresponding requirements.  Instruction and clinical practice are conducted at the School of Dentistry, Pediatric University Hospital and the San Juan Municipal Hospital.  Formal courses of instruction are provided in related subjects by means of seminars, lectures, discussions, and practical exercises.

Required clinical experiences include advanced pediatric dentistry clinic, special pediatric dentistry clinic, physical diagnosis and interceptive orthodontics.  Residents spend one month at the pediatric anesthesia and pediatric emergency wards and participate in the meeting of the cleft-palate team at the Pediatric University Hospital.  Community extramural experiences include the Pediatric Dentistry Community Track of Cantera.  Experiences in the operating room and conscious sedation are also required.  The Cantera Community track runs parallel to the regular program and emphasizes preventive and oral health promotion, as well as restorative treatment.

Students enrolled in the program are required to participate full-time and may not work in private practice during the residency period.  Admission to the program is open to qualified graduates of dental schools accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association and, under special circumstances, to graduates of foreign dental schools who intend to return to their countries of origin as teachers and/or researchers.

The structure and content of the Pediatric Dentistry program follows the guidelines for advanced education programs established by the Council on Dental Education and the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry.  The program is subject to review by these groups so that graduates may receive the corresponding privileges.

The postgraduate program in Pediatric Dentistry is guided by three fundamental responsibilities of the University, which are: (a) the expansion of knowledge through research, (b) the dissemination of such knowledge through teaching, and (c) the application of
resources to the solution of social problems and needs.

Patients are selected to provide students with a variety of clinical experiences in the areas of interceptive orthodontics, growth and development, syndromes, developmental defects and genetic abnormalities, as well as social and behavior management problems.

The outstanding strengths of the program are:

·    The availability and variety of a pool of medically compromised children with dental problems.

·     The availability and extensive use of medical consultation during treatment of these children

·     The comprehensive treatment of malocclusion through orthodontic therapy.

The varied backgrounds of the program's full-time, clinical sciences and basic sciences faculty make it possible for the dentist seeking advanced Pediatric Dentistry training to obtain a broad based education.

POSTDOCTORAL CERTIFICATE IN PEDIATRIC
DENTISTRY                    
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS: 43 TRIMESTER C.H. +
6 SEMESTER C.H.

Code

Course

Credits

PEDO 9400

Advanced Pediatric Dentistry Seminar

2 crs./trim

PEDO 9404

Interceptive Orthodontics Seminar I

2 crs./trim

PEDO 9408

Advanced Pediatric Dentistry Clinic

3 crs./trim

PEDO 9411

Special Pediatric Dentistry Clinic

2 crs./trim

PEDO 9414

Problems of Handicapped Children

4 crs./trim

PEDO 9436

Research Methods for Residents

2 crs./trim

PDOC 9005

Statistics Analysis Applied to Dental Sciences

3 crs./trim

PEDO 9439

Pediatric Physical Diagnosis

3 crs./trim

PEDO 9407

Anesthesiology Clerkship

2 crs./trim

PEDO 9409

Advanced Pediatric Dentistry Clinic

3 crs./trim

PEDO 9412

Special Pediatric Dentistry Clinic

3 crs./trim

PEDO 9416

Dental Education

2 crs./trim

PEDO 9424

Interceptive Orthodontics Clinic II

2 crs./trim

PEDO 9428

Current Literature Review

2 crs./trim

PROG 9107

Conscious Sedation for Dental Patients

3 crs./trim

BIOR 9005

Advanced Oral Biology Core Course

5 crs./trim

MEDI7400

Pediatrics

2 crs./trim

REST 9061

Research Project I

0.5 crs./trim

REST 9062

Research Project II

0.5 crs./trim

Electives:

PEDO 9446

Baby Bottle Tooth Decay Outreach Program

3 crs./trim

PEDO 9447

Community Oral Health

3 crs./trim

Requirements to fulfill master's degree:

PEDO 9500

Development of Research

3 crs./sem

PEDO 6560

Project Statistical Inference in Dentistry

3 crs./sem

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