Досвід викладання вибіркової дисципліни «Сучасні принципи діагностики та лікування дизонтогенетичної патології щелепно-лицевої ділянки»

Abstract

Sustainable development of public health care in Ukraine, in particular dental care, requires highly qualified specialists with skills in the field of diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of various human diseases. Therefore, improving the quality of training of health care professionals in compliance with the standards of higher education is very important current issue. The Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy has created all the necessary conditions for the formation of individual educational trajectory of students of the second (Master’s) level of higher education in the specialty 221 “Dentistry” due to the balance of compulsory and elective educational components in the curriculum “Dentistry”. It contains a large list of elective components created by the UMSA faculty staff at the initiative of the academy and the recommendations of stakeholders, including “Current principles of the diagnosis and treatment of dysontogenetic pathology of the maxillofacial area”, which comprehensively studies the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, current methods of diagnosrics, treatment of diseases of dysontogenetic origin in children; develops skills of making a rational plan of examination of a patient with diseases caused by embryogenetic disorders and the ability to analyze the resulting data; identifies the key symptoms and syndromes of dysontogenetic origin and differential diagnosis with justification and making the diagnosis, principles of comprehensive treatment of patients; contributes in prediction and prevention of complications of these diseases in children. The paper highlights the experience of teaching the elective component of the curriculum “Current principles of the diagnosis and treatment of dysontogenetic pathology of the maxillofacial area” at the Department of Pediatric Oral Surgery of UMSA, which showed the prospects of teaching it to the 5th – year dental students and received positive feedback. This inspired the faculty staff of the Department to continue activities on improving the academic process.