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.
