Course Description
The medical management course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills that allow them to recognize different medical diseases related to dental and oral problems. Manage different dental complications of medical illness.
Most diseases affect dental treatment plans either directly or indirectly, so we designed this course to focus on the clinical aspects of all body systems, common diseases that affect those systems,, and their significance on dental treatment.
The course covers a wide range of topics like blood disorders, respiratory diseases, GIT disorders, liver diseases, endocrine disorders. Find out our Implant League Training Center for a wide range of online courses that cover these critical topics and more.
Course Aims
Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to: Have an appropriate background covering the common important internal medicine emergencies and diseases. He/she should also develop an appropriate communication and problem-solving skills regarding medically compromised patients.
Course Outcomes
- Learn basics of Medicine, its fundamentals and apply it during clinical practice.
- Know common blood disorders, identify their signs and symptoms, their implication in dental surgery and their management.
- Identify different Gastrointestinal disorders their signs and symptoms, their impact in dental surgery and their management.
- Have knowledge of common cardiovascular diseases that presents in their daily practice, their impact in dental surgery and impact of dental procedures in the cardiovascular diseases.
- Have knowledge of common respiratory diseases and their presentation in daily practice, their impact in dental surgery
- Have knowledge of chronic renal failure and their effect on oral tissues.
- Have knowledge of common endocrinal diseases and their presentation in daily practice, with special focus on Diabetes mellitus
- Know basic information about psychological and neurological diseases.
Target Group
- Dentists
- Pre-graduate dental students
Course Outline
- Introduction and course objectives
- Bisphosphonates effect and management
- Blood disorders [different types of anemia- platelet problems- hemophilia- leukemia…. Etc]
- Cardiovascular diseases
- GIT disorders
- Respiratory diseases
- Endocrinal disorders
- Neurological diseases
- Liver diseases
- Chronic renal failure
- Psychological disorders
Course Format
- 3 hours of video lectures
- Downloadable printout material [PDF]
- 14 lectures
Course Features
- Lectures15
- Quizzes0
- Duration14 lectures
- Skill levelAll levels
- LanguageEnglish
- Students3
- AssessmentsYes
Target audiences
- Dentists
- Pre-graduate Dental Students
