Comprehensive Exam Track: Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 58 Credit Hours ) as Follows
Specialization Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses
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Course Number |
Course Name |
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Cr. Hrs. |
Prerequisite |
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| 151106215 | BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS) | The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). | - | 0 |
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| 152186100 | ADVANCED PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY 1 | This course aims to provide postgraduate students with an introduction to both theoretical and clinical concepts in pediatric dentistry. This course will enhance previous knowledge and provide students with new information with regards to both basic science and practical fields. This course will include topics like psychological and physiological development of child, history and examination, infection control and restorative dentistry for both primary and permanent teeth. Nonpharmacological management of children’s behaviors including classification of children’s cooperative behavior, establishment of communication. Local anesthesia for pediatric patient. Preventive dentistry. Radiographic examination, techniques and radiographic safety. Prescribing Dental Radiographs for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Persons with Special Health Care Needs. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 152186110 | ADVANCED PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY 2 | This course covers a more advanced topics of pediatric dentistry as well as the interchange between pediatric dentistry and other branches of dentistry like orthodontics, endodontics and oral and maxillofacial surgery including topics like 1. Advanced pediatric dentistry including pulp therapy for both primary and young permanent teeth 2. Pain perception and control. 3. Common Pediatric Medications and appropriate use of antibiotic therapy for pediatric dental patient 4. Pharmacologic management of children’s behaviors including nitrous oxide and oxygen sedation, conscious sedation techniques and general anesthesia. 5. Eruption of teeth: local, systemic and congenital factors that influence the process 6. Pediatric oral pathology. 7. Interceptive orthodontics and space management. 8. Multidisciplinary approach to cleft lip and palate management. 9. Impaction and ectopic eruption of teeth. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 152186120 | RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS | * | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 152186130 | CURRENT TOPICS IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY | This course focuses on building the student’s skill in following up recent literature, appraising it and carrying out critical assessment that includes: examination, diagnosis, treatment planning, evidence based dentistry. The course is carried out in a series of two hourly seminars in which one of the topics is discussed, presented and the related relevant and recent literature is reviewed. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 152186140 | PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS | TThis course describes dental problems in children with disabilities, guideline on management of the following: Persons with special health care needs, medically compromised patients, Pediatric patients receiving chemotherapy, hematopoietic cell transplantation, and/or radiation, medically compromised patients as well as medical emergencies and antibiotic prophylaxis. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 152186150 | ORAL AND DENTAL TRAUMATOLOGY | Detailed course about traumatic dental injuries including epidemiology of traumatic dental injuries, nature and consequence of trauma, classification and management. Also it speaks about child abuse and neglect and children safeguarding. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 152186160 | LABORATORY TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY | This session helps the postgraduate student to master the basics of wire bending for the fabrication of different types of space maintainers. | 3 | 1 |
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| 152186170 | GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT | This course describes intrauterine growth and development, general growth (physical and psychological), craniofacial growth, tooth development and eruption, and congenital genetic disorders and syndromes. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 152186180 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY I | This is a four-credit hour problem-based learning course designed to prepare new students in for clinical activities in terms of child examination, diagnosis and treatment planning as well as non-pharmacologic behavior management. It includes seminar discussions of behavior management techniques including approaches of proper treatment planning in terms of type and sequence in children with applying the best prevention regimen. | 3 | 1 |
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| 152186190 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY II | This is a four-credit hour problem-based learning course designed to prepare new students in for clinical activities in terms of child examination, diagnosis and treatment planning as well as non-pharmacologic behavior management. It includes seminar discussions of behavior management techniques including approaches of proper treatment planning in terms of type and sequence in children with applying the best prevention regimen. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186200 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY III | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. It aims to provide students with guidance, experience and management of different types of problems as well as patients in terms of cooperation and the associated skills, knowledge which is necessary to perform successful management of primary dentition. During this course, students will perform restorative treatment, vital pulp therapy and non-vital pulp therapy for primary teeth, along with space management. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186210 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY IV | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. It aims to provide students with guidance, experience and management of different types of problems as well as patients in terms of cooperation and the associated skills, knowledge which is necessary to perform successful management of primary dentition. During this course, students are expected to master all types of treatment for primary dentition including restorative treatment, vital pulp therapy and non-vital pulp therapy for primary teeth, along with space management. Students are requested to attend sessions of complete oral rehabilitation under general anesthesia for observation only. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186220 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY V | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. This course aims to guide students in the management of patients under sedation including conscious sedation, nitrous oxide sedation and having active participation in general anesthesia. | - | 4 |
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| 152186230 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY VI | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. Students are expected to master both pharmacological and non-pharmacological behavior management approaches. It aims to provide students with guidance for proper examination and treatment planning for dental traumatic accidents as well as successful management. Students are introduced to children safeguarding and the rule that pediatric dentist plays in this field. | - | 4 |
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| 152186240 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY VII | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. It aims to provide students with guidance, experience and management of different types of problems as well as patients in terms of cooperation and the associated skills, knowledge which is necessary to perform successful management of primary teeth and young permanent teeth. During this course, students are expected to perform treatment for young permanent teeth including restorative treatment, vital pulp therapy and non-vital pulp therapy. Students are expected to perform complete oral rehabilitation under general anesthesia successfully. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186250 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY VIII | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. It aims to provide students with guidance, experience and management of cases that needs interceptive orthodontic management as well as cases that needs a team work like cleft lip and palate cases. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186260 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY IX | This course aims to enhance last year postgraduate students in paediatric dentistry to finish their ongoing clinical cases and provide complete documentation of their cases in their logbook. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186270 | SEMINAR I | Each student has to complete a research project. The results of the project should be presented in the form of a written report, ready for publication in a peer reviewed international journal. | 5 | - | 5 |
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| 152186280 | SEMINAR II | The research project should be finished and presented together with a literature review (in the same domain) for the Board of Examiners at the end of the 3rd year. | 4 | - | 4 |
152186270 SEMINAR I Each student has to complete a research project. The results of the project should be presented in the form of a written report, ready for publication in a peer reviewed international journal. |
Thesis\Treatise Track: Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 58 Credit Hours ) as Follows
Specialization Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses plus ( 9 ) credit hours for the Thesis
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Course Number |
Course Name |
Weekly Hours |
Cr. Hrs. |
Prerequisite |
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Theoretical |
Practical |
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| 151106215 | BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS) | The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). | - | 0 |
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|
| 152186100 | ADVANCED PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY 1 | This course aims to provide postgraduate students with an introduction to both theoretical and clinical concepts in pediatric dentistry. This course will enhance previous knowledge and provide students with new information with regards to both basic science and practical fields. This course will include topics like psychological and physiological development of child, history and examination, infection control and restorative dentistry for both primary and permanent teeth. Nonpharmacological management of children’s behaviors including classification of children’s cooperative behavior, establishment of communication. Local anesthesia for pediatric patient. Preventive dentistry. Radiographic examination, techniques and radiographic safety. Prescribing Dental Radiographs for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Persons with Special Health Care Needs. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 152186110 | ADVANCED PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY 2 | This course covers a more advanced topics of pediatric dentistry as well as the interchange between pediatric dentistry and other branches of dentistry like orthodontics, endodontics and oral and maxillofacial surgery including topics like 1. Advanced pediatric dentistry including pulp therapy for both primary and young permanent teeth 2. Pain perception and control. 3. Common Pediatric Medications and appropriate use of antibiotic therapy for pediatric dental patient 4. Pharmacologic management of children’s behaviors including nitrous oxide and oxygen sedation, conscious sedation techniques and general anesthesia. 5. Eruption of teeth: local, systemic and congenital factors that influence the process 6. Pediatric oral pathology. 7. Interceptive orthodontics and space management. 8. Multidisciplinary approach to cleft lip and palate management. 9. Impaction and ectopic eruption of teeth. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 152186120 | RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS | * | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 152186130 | CURRENT TOPICS IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY | This course focuses on building the student’s skill in following up recent literature, appraising it and carrying out critical assessment that includes: examination, diagnosis, treatment planning, evidence based dentistry. The course is carried out in a series of two hourly seminars in which one of the topics is discussed, presented and the related relevant and recent literature is reviewed. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 152186140 | PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS | TThis course describes dental problems in children with disabilities, guideline on management of the following: Persons with special health care needs, medically compromised patients, Pediatric patients receiving chemotherapy, hematopoietic cell transplantation, and/or radiation, medically compromised patients as well as medical emergencies and antibiotic prophylaxis. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 152186150 | ORAL AND DENTAL TRAUMATOLOGY | Detailed course about traumatic dental injuries including epidemiology of traumatic dental injuries, nature and consequence of trauma, classification and management. Also it speaks about child abuse and neglect and children safeguarding. | 2 | - | 2 |
- |
| 152186160 | LABORATORY TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY | This session helps the postgraduate student to master the basics of wire bending for the fabrication of different types of space maintainers. | 3 | 1 |
- |
|
| 152186170 | GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT | This course describes intrauterine growth and development, general growth (physical and psychological), craniofacial growth, tooth development and eruption, and congenital genetic disorders and syndromes. | 2 | - | 2 |
- |
| 152186180 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY I | This is a four-credit hour problem-based learning course designed to prepare new students in for clinical activities in terms of child examination, diagnosis and treatment planning as well as non-pharmacologic behavior management. It includes seminar discussions of behavior management techniques including approaches of proper treatment planning in terms of type and sequence in children with applying the best prevention regimen. | 3 | 1 |
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| 152186190 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY II | This is a four-credit hour problem-based learning course designed to prepare new students in for clinical activities in terms of child examination, diagnosis and treatment planning as well as non-pharmacologic behavior management. It includes seminar discussions of behavior management techniques including approaches of proper treatment planning in terms of type and sequence in children with applying the best prevention regimen. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186200 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY III | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. It aims to provide students with guidance, experience and management of different types of problems as well as patients in terms of cooperation and the associated skills, knowledge which is necessary to perform successful management of primary dentition. During this course, students will perform restorative treatment, vital pulp therapy and non-vital pulp therapy for primary teeth, along with space management. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186210 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY IV | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. It aims to provide students with guidance, experience and management of different types of problems as well as patients in terms of cooperation and the associated skills, knowledge which is necessary to perform successful management of primary dentition. During this course, students are expected to master all types of treatment for primary dentition including restorative treatment, vital pulp therapy and non-vital pulp therapy for primary teeth, along with space management. Students are requested to attend sessions of complete oral rehabilitation under general anesthesia for observation only. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186220 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY V | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. This course aims to guide students in the management of patients under sedation including conscious sedation, nitrous oxide sedation and having active participation in general anesthesia. | - | 4 |
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| 152186230 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY VI | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. Students are expected to master both pharmacological and non-pharmacological behavior management approaches. It aims to provide students with guidance for proper examination and treatment planning for dental traumatic accidents as well as successful management. Students are introduced to children safeguarding and the rule that pediatric dentist plays in this field. | - | 4 |
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| 152186240 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY VII | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. It aims to provide students with guidance, experience and management of different types of problems as well as patients in terms of cooperation and the associated skills, knowledge which is necessary to perform successful management of primary teeth and young permanent teeth. During this course, students are expected to perform treatment for young permanent teeth including restorative treatment, vital pulp therapy and non-vital pulp therapy. Students are expected to perform complete oral rehabilitation under general anesthesia successfully. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186250 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY VIII | This course is totally composed of practical sessions. It aims to provide students with guidance, experience and management of cases that needs interceptive orthodontic management as well as cases that needs a team work like cleft lip and palate cases. | 12 | 4 |
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| 152186260 | CLINICAL TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY IX | This course aims to enhance last year postgraduate students in paediatric dentistry to finish their ongoing clinical cases and provide complete documentation of their cases in their logbook. | 12 | 4 |
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