Integrated clinical practice training has been included in the Term 5 training program in 2014. The internship period is 6 weeks and 30 working days. With this feature, it is in the category called major internship together with the Prosthetic Clinic and Surgery Clinic course in the final year of dentistry education.
The integrated Clinical Practice course, which is multidisciplinary, is a course jointly conducted by the Departments of Endodontics, Restorative Dentistry, Periodontology, Oral, Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery, and Oral, Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology.
Due to its multidisciplinary structure, Term 5 students complete all treatments except the prosthetic treatment of the patient they examined during this internship.
During the Integrated Clinic, students gain experience in arranging the treatment sequence to be cure to the patients, determining the appointment date and time, and accomplishing different tasks on the same day. All these stages and treatments are carried out under the supervision of lecturers from the relevant departments.
The main purpose of the clinical internship is final year students’ learning the principles of diagnosis and treatment with a holistic approach to the patient. Thus, students are provided with the opportunity to communicate more with the patient and take responsibility in planning, decision-making, and treatments. In the future, these gains provide a great advantage in surgery practice.
In addition to these advantages it provides to the students, the Integrated Clinic undertakes an important mission in terms of developing interdisciplinary communication, consultation, and institutional belonging in the faculty as a training program in which faculty members from different departments take duties and responsibilities together.
Responsible Manager
Dr. Abdullah Cevdet AKMAN (Responsible Assistant)
