Semester 2

Evidence-Based Dentistry 

In Semester 2, the course covered will be 'Evidence-Based Dentistry'. This course aims to provide students with the necessary scientific foundation of knowledge and skills required to practice effective “Evidence-based Dentistry.” Specifically, students will gain knowledge and skills to form critical questions, locate information, judge the quality of available information, and apply the evidence to clinical decision making and ongoing evaluation in both patient care at the individual level, and oral health promotion and community advocacy at the population level. Students will learn to access relevant scientific literature and conduct searches, and tools and methodology to critically appraise the scientific literature. In the seminar/activity component of the course, students meet in small groups led by faculty members who serve as facilitators to complete “case-based” learning activities to formulate good clinically relevant PICO questions and assess the scientific literature to find the best evidence-based answers to those questions.