DDDX313A PENYAKIT MANUSIA

HUMAN DISEASE DDDX313A

The course provides didactic and clinical teaching of relevant general medicine and general medicine topics to the dental students. Human Disease course deals with the important aspects for the safe and appropriate management of dental patients that have general systemic diseases. This includes sufficient knowledge to recognize problems in the medical history of patients about to undergo dental treatment and to take the appropriate action to provide quality care and awareness of how general surgical conditions affect the choice of treatment or medications that a dental patient may require. Students must also be able to detect signs of undiagnosed medical disease in their patients. This skill must rely upon recognition of such signs from the exposed parts of a dental patient’s body that are normally visible during a dental consultation. An important aspect of the course is to ensure that future graduate practitioners understand when referral for complex treatment is indicated.

This course covers the following topics: common medical problems and diseases, diagnosis and treatment; and diseases of particular importance to dentists, including infective endocarditis, hepatitis, bleeding diseases and acute and chronic cardiac and respiratory disorders, fundamental knowledge on the principles of surgery and the important clinical conditions of the surgical aspects related to the head and neck.

The courses are delivered using a combination of lectures, seminars and ward rounds. Most of the teaching will be carried out by the lecturers from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia. Lectures or seminars will be held in KL campus or Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz UKM, whereby the ward rounds session will be in Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz UKM.