Classes

Dentist As A Leader

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2013

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine’s (HSDM) mission is to educate students to become leaders in their field. The rapid changes in healthcare – from reform in managed care to disease/patient care management and the implementation of electronic health records - are not going to exclude dentistry and will demand strong leadership from oral health professionals at every level. Influencing policy makers at the professional association level, development of affordable insurance products, reform of state level oral health programs, development of the profession in the 21st century,...

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Dental Health Care Delivery and Ethics

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2013

This course for DMD students focuses on understanding the challenges of dental public health and the ethics around oral health dilemmas, as well as the management and leadership challenges of a dental practice/departmental setting. The course highlights the practical ethics of day to day dentistry and dental hygiene, the rules and regulation regarding the practice of dentistry and legal ramifications of non-compliance, the legal reasoning approach, quality improvement, economic trends that impact the dental profession,  the importance of team building and communication skills, basic...

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