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OSAKA DENTAL UNIVERSITY

6 Year Curriculum

  • 1st Year
  • 2nd Year
  • 3rd Year
  • 4th Year
  • 5th Year
  • 6th Year

1st Year

Formation of foundational competence

Contents

Goal

  • Develop habits to learn knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for dentists throughout their careers
  • Acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for understanding specialized education and the fundamentals of basic dental medicine
  • Acquire general knowledge, language and information processing skills necessary as a member of society
  • Acquire attitudes and communication skills necessary for a healthcare professional

2nd Year

Introduction to basic dental medicine

Contents

Goal

  • Maintain habits to learn knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for a dentist
  • Acquire comprehensive knowledge, skills, and attitudes for basic dental medicine
  • Master basic dental medicine to be successful in the Common Achievement Test for dentistry
  • Demonstrate attitudes and communication skills required for a healthcare professional

3rd Year

Introduction to basic clinical dental medicine

Contents

Goal

  • Demonstrate habits to learn knowledge, skills, and attitudes required of a dentist throughout their careers
  • Acquire the basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes for clinical dental medicine/social dental medicine
  • Acquire basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to prevention, examination, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in the oral region
  • Acquire basic knowledge of adjacent medical fields and education on comprehensive medicine
  • Develop communication skills and hospitality so that they can understand the other's situation, make and execute a decision, while cultivating rich humanity, sociality and insight

4th Year

Clinical Dental Medicine

Contents

Goal

  • Establish habits to learn knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for a dentist throughout their careers
  • Master comprehensive knowledge, skills, and attitudes about clinical dental medicine/social dental medicine
  • Master comprehensive knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to prevention, examination, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in the oral region
  • Master the academic ability to pass the Common Achievement Test for dentistry
  • Understand learning methods necessary to achieve respective goals of essential practical competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) to be acquired by the start of clinical training, and make efforts to achieve these goals

5th Year

Clinical Dental Practice

Contents

Goal

  • Demonstrate habits to learn knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for a dentist throughout their careers during clinical training
  • Acquire comprehensive knowledge, skills, and attitudes of basic dental medicine and clinical dental medicine
  • Acquire practical clinical knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for a dentist
  • Acquire skills for communication with patients and cooperation with dental staff
  • Overarching education for dental medicine

6th Year

Professional education for dentists

Contents

  • Overarching education for dental medicine

Goal

  • Acquire researcher's mind to learn knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for a dentist throughout their careers, and master such learning habits
  • Acquire systematic and comprehensive knowledge, skills, and attitudes for dental medicine
  • Master general knowledge, language and information processing skills necessary as a member of society
  • Master communication skills required for a healthcare professional
  • Acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to pass the National Dentist Examination and be successful as a dentist throughout their careers