Course Information
Iatrosedation Clinical Encounter
Course Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2024Time: 12:00 PM
Division: Dental Public Health and Community Outreach
Course registration number: 1.0-5287-24003
CE Unit(s): This course meets the Dental Board of California's requirements for 1 unit(s) of continuing education.
Description:
The purpose of this course is to calibrate faculty for Session 4 – “Interacting with Others” to facilitate students’ basic principles of behavioral sciences, focusing on communication strategies; reviewing effective clinical interviewing skills for initiating contact with patients; understanding how personal attributes such as culture, age, special needs, health literacy, personality traits affect communication. Students will learn how to identify and manage patients with anxiety and/or pain using non-pharmacological methods.
Objective:
· Explain to students - communication techniques to facilitate information gathering from the patient during a clinical encounter.
· Explain to students - a brief description of the psychology of anxiety and types of fears encountered in the dental setting;
· Discuss with students the benefits of the Iatrosedation Process – Clinical Encounter in addressing dental fear
· Facilitate students conducting the Iatro-sedation Clinical Encounters in role-play exercises using appropriate communication skills/techniques considering a person’s individual characteristics (Special Patients: Autism, ADHD)
Speaker(s):
Kimberly Hiroshige, DDS
Associate Professor of Clinical Dentistry
Dept of Geriatric, Special Needs and Behavioral
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