Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Institutionalized Care Patients
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English,
Teaching staff
Introduction
Demographic projections for the coming years tell us of an aging population with more chronic medical pathologies. The social reality is making a considerable number of people with special needs, frail elderly or with important chronic pathologies live in residences or specific centers. These patients require dental care that goes beyond the mere usual and punctual care function, encompassing prevention concepts and incorporating equipment and differentiated work techniques
Pre-course requirements
You need a degree in dentistry or stomatology
Objectives
That dentists know the institutions, residences, reception centers or hospitalization of patients with special needs, the management techniques of these patients and the logistics that are needed in these cases
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
Train dentists knowledgeable about the medical and pharmacological pathologies that condition dental treatments in elderly and disabled patients.
Train dentists capable of integrating into multidisciplinary care teams for the elderly.
Train dentists capable of knowing the particularities of dental treatment that is carried out in a hospital environment under sedation and/or anesthesia techniques.
To train dentists interested in research and the study of aging, disability and oral pathology.
Train odontologists able to treat patients with medical or pharmacological commitment dentally.
Train dentists capable of knowing the diagnostic management and treatment of mucosal injuries.
To train dentists knowledgeable about the medical, social, psychological and structural characteristics of institutionalized patients and receiving institutions
Syllabus
Assistance in a hospital environment to mentally disabled patients
Assistance in residential institutions to elderly patients
Assistance to any institution that welcomes or cares for patients with special needs
Assistance to patients at the University Dental Clinic for 2 weeks in July