7. semestar

The program of pediatric education of dental school students has a total of 15 hours of lectures and 15 hours of clinical exercises. The program has general pediatric themes as well as all other specific pediatric fields, with a special attention on diseases and pathological states concerning the work of a dentist. Students shall receive general information on specific thematic parts during lectures, followed by clinical exercises regarding information and knowledge received through lectures. Clinical exercises include work with pediatric patients related to their characteristics based on age, gender and pathological substrate. Exercises will relate to all other practical aspects of working with pediatric population, team work, and communication skills needed in working with children, as well as multidisciplinary approach to ill child. We expect active involvement of students during lectures, and especially in clinical exercises. Besides skills of clinical exam of the child, taking anamnesis and hetero-anamnesis information for the ill child, interpretation of normal and pathological findings in different kinds of diagnostics, recognizing and treating most common childhood diseases, a special accent will be given to preventive measures in pediatric population.

Rules of grading

Pediatric knowledge will be evaluated during oral exam. For the exam, students should prepare through listed mandatory literature, lectures and clinical exercises. Students shall be given a total of 45 exam questions for the oral exam. Questions cover all segments, or themes mentioned and studied through lectures and clinical exercises. The student will randomly be asked three questions from the given list. A passing grade is given if the student was able to describe clinical picture, the differential diagnosis and plan basic diagnostic and therapeutical elements for each asked question/disease.