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Dental Hygiene
MSC09 5020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 272-4513
Fax: (505) 272-5584
Division of Dental Hygiene
Master of Science
Detailed Course Synopsis
D HYGN 500- Current Issues in Dental Hygiene (3 credits):
In-depth discussion focusing on current issues facing the dental hygiene
discipline. This course is designed to explore the current issues facing the
dental hygiene discipline and to plan and implement strategies to make
changes in dental hygiene for the betterment of the society. This course is
a problem-based course including both undergraduate and graduate students.
Graduate students will be facilitating case studies within groups of
undergraduate students and ultimately reporting the case findings.
Interdisciplinary work will also be included. Students choose case study
topics with approval from course director. This course was designed in
conjunction with the School of Medicine's interdisciplinary courses.
D HYGN 501 - Dental Hygiene Management and Administration (3
credits):
Principles of management and administration in a variety of settings and
in-depth discussions of ethics in dental hygiene. This course will be taught
by the dental hygiene program director and will include topics of
leadership, decision making and problem solving skills. In additions,
current theories and paradigms of management of staff, daily operations,
administration and planning, implementation and evaluation activities will
be presented. Students will be required to submit papers for publication
based upon management and administrative endeavors in dental hygiene.
D HYGN 502 - Instructional Strategies (3 credits):
Theories and concepts on the teaching of dental hygiene students and
presenting research to national and international audiences. Technological
advances in teaching classroom, laboratory and clinical courses to be
discussed. Students will be required to prepare and present a lesson in the
undergraduate program and a professional talk to their peers. This course is
designed to prepare graduate level dental hygienists the concepts of
education and to develop national and international dental hygiene speakers.
D HYGN 503 - Oral Medicine (3 credits: 1 hour didactic/6 hours
clinical):
Didactic and clinical course focusing on the assessment, dental hygiene
diagnosis, treatment plan, treatment, referral and evaluation of dental
hygiene cases. Graduate level topics in periodontology and oral pathology
will be covered. The course director will work with a variety of experts
that will present to the class. The didactic portion will include problem
based learning activities, class assignments and lecture/discussion. The
clinic course will focus on dental treatment, diagnosis and evaluation of
medically-compromised patients.
D HYGN 504 - Dental Hygiene Internship (6 credits):
Direct observation and supervised learning in an area of dental hygiene.
Interns complete this practicum in selected sited implementing the skills
acquired in DH 502. These will include sites from all over New Mexico,
depending on the students individualized track. Sites may include community
clinics, dental educational institutions, public health departments and
agencies, hospitals, long term care facility, military bases and prisons.
The graduate program director must approve all internships.
D HYGN 505 - Clinical Teaching and Administration
(3 credits: 1 hour didactic/6 hours clinical):
The theory and practice of laboratory, pre-clinical and clinical dental
hygiene instruction with emphasis on the coordination of clinical dental
hygiene education. This course will consist of a didactic portion which
teaches the current theories, concepts and paradigms of clinical dental
hygiene education. Students will work on assignments in the coordination and
operation of a dental hygiene educational clinic. Students will study and
apply concepts in students clinical advising. In addition, the clinic
portion will include hands on teaching experience with undergraduate
students.
D HYGN 507 - Problems (1-3 credits):
A topical research and procedures course that can be individualized
for the student. All problems topics must be approved by the graduate
program director.
D HYGN 510: Dental Hygiene Research ( 3 credits):
Dental hygiene research methodologies with emphasis on grant writing
and research proposals and research presentations. Students will cover the
research approaches and types, research methodologies, biostatistics, ethics
and consent issues in dental research and the dental research entities
nationally and internationally. In particular, this is the course
MATH 559 Selected Topics (3 credits):
Biostatistics course taught by the Master of Public Health Program
Faculty Member.
D HYGN 560 (3 credits):
A graduate project which does not include the conduct of research,
but does include a comprehensive review of the literature on a specific,
approved topic by the Division of Dental Hygiene.
D HYGN 561 Advanced Dental Hygiene Clinic (6 credits):
Clinical and didactic course which focuses on dental hygiene theory
and practice working with interdisciplinary health care workers in a variety
of settings including: hospital, geriatric, preschool and school children,
cancer, social work and long-term facilities. Students will be supervised by
the course coordinator and will work alongside, dentists, physicians,
nurses, faculty dental hygienists and other allied health care providers.
D HYGN 599 Thesis (6 credits):
Continuation of research, culminating in a Master's Degree Thesis.