Curriculum
Our curriculum, student-support programs and varied clinical experiences will prepare you for a range of career opportunities.
Bitonte College of Dentistry
Exceptional clinical experiences for our students. Exceptional quality of care for our communities.
NEOMED’s relatively small class size (50) means more personalized attention and favorable faculty-to-student ratios, and instructors who know you personally and can see your progression across the four years of the program.
NEOMED invests in a supportive environment for students. Faculty and staff want you to succeed. Our student-support programs and professionals will help you do that.
Varied clinical experiences
About half the clinical experience in D3 and D4 will be in our brand new, state-of-the-art dental clinic on the NEOMED campus and about half the clinical experience will be at community-based (off-campus) training sites—providing you a range of patient populations, patient treatment needs and clinical experiences. This will provide a broad array of role models to learn from in real-world care settings.
How will NEOMED’s clinical training differ from traditional approaches?
NEOMED dental students will perform oral health care procedures under the caring trained mentorship of clinical faculty in our on campus dental clinic and in community dental care settings off campus.
How does this differ from traditional approaches?
The traditional approach to dental education took place exclusively in on-campus dental clinics. NEOMED’s innovative approach blends campus clinical instruction with off campus service to Ohioans in the greatest need of oral care. NEOMED students will learn more by serving patients in a variety of settings.
Year one
| First Eight Weeks | Second Eight Weeks |
|---|---|
| Introduction to Patient-Centered Oral Health Care | |
| Dental Anatomy and Occlusion | Periodontics I |
| Nutrition | |
| Head and Neck Anatomy | |
| Biomedical Sciences Foundations | Flora, Pathogens and Defense |
| Cariology | Operative Dentistry I |
| First Eight Weeks | Second Eight Weeks |
|---|---|
| Disease Prevention and Health Promotion | |
| Introduction to Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Dentistry | |
| Anatomy, Physiology and Pathophysiology | |
| Neurobiology | |
| Introduction to Radiography | |
| Operative Dentistry II | |
| Fixed Prosthodontics I (Didactic) | |
| Fixed Prosthodontics I (Sim Lab) | |
Year Two
| Ten weeks |
|---|
| Oral Radiology |
| Complete Dentures |
| Digital Dentistry Lab |
| Pediatric Dentistry |
| Occlusion |
| Integrated Cases |
| First Eight Weeks | Second Eight Weeks |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Oral Diagnosis and Treatment Planning I | |
| Periodontics II | |
| Fixed Prosthodontics II | |
| Endodontics | |
| Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery I | |
| Implant Dentistry | |
| Interprofessional Education I | |
| Integrated Cases | |
| Clinical Skills | |
| First Eight Weeks | Second Eight Weeks |
|---|---|
| Clinical Skills | |
| Conscious Sedation | |
| Ethical Decision-Making and Legal Requirements | |
| Geriatric Dentistry | |
| Interprofessional Education II | |
| Integrated Cases | |
| Management of Medical Emergencies | Management of Dental Emergencies |
| Oral Diagnosis and Treatment Planning II | |
| Oral Pathology | |
| Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery II | |
| Orthodontics | |
| Patient Assessment and Medical-Dental Integration | |
| Periodontics III | |
| Removable Partial Dentures | |
| Temporomandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain | |
Year Three
| Ten weeks | |
|---|---|
| Clinical General Dentistry I |
| First Eight Weeks | Second Eight Weeks |
|---|---|
| Leadership and Practice Management I | |
| Clinical General Dentistry II | |
| First Eight Weeks | Second Eight Weeks |
|---|---|
| Clinical General Dentistry III | |
| Clinical Patient Assessment, Diagnosis, Treatment Planning and Prevention I | |
| Clinical Periodontics I | |
| Clinical Oral Surgery I | |
| Clinical Operative Dentistry I | |
| Clinical Pediatric Dentistry I | |
Year Four
| First Six Weeks | Second Six Weeks |
|---|---|
| Clinical General Dentistry IV | |
| First Eight Weeks | Second Eight Weeks |
|---|---|
| Clinical Dentistry V | |
| Leadership and Practice Management II | |
| First Eight Weeks | Second Eight Weeks |
|---|---|
| Clinical General Dentistry VI | |
| Clinical Patient Assessment, Diagnosis, Treatment Planning and Disease Prevention II |
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| Clinical Periodontics II | |
| Clinical Oral Surgery II | |
| Clinical Operative Dentistry II | |
| Clinical Pediatric Dentistry II | |
| Clinical Fixed Prosthodontics | |
| Clinical Removable Prosthodontics | |
| Clinical Endodontics | |
| Clinical Orthodontics | |