Medicine and Health is a broad field of study that deals with acquiring knowledge in terms of treatment and prevention of illnesses and diseases of human beings and animals. Laughter may be the best medicine, but during a Medicine and Health degree you learn lots of interesting things like the fact that your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
Kinds of medicine are several and different such as Public health, Human medicine, Veterinary medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Health management. We will mention the master in facial pain and oral medicine.
Information about Oral Medicine Program
This program is an unique opportunity for students who want getting a master of Science in OFPOM (Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine) or the dentists who want to widen their knowledge by gaining experiences. You should be interested in TMD, headaches, neuropathies, Sleep Apnea, oral medicine, or intraoral pathology.
The duration of this programs is 37 months, The program is designed for both US and international dentists, The program includes 17 courses (32.5 credit hours), Students are able to enter the program during the Fall, Spring and Summer semesters, Students continue to work in their practises while in the program, Students typically work on the program on evenings or weekends, The program includes 2-3 weekly streaming video lectures, one live weekly video conference and online quizzes,
The curriculum
There are 2-3 courses per trimester, with 2-4 streaming video lectures for viewing each week. After each video lecture, students complete an associated online quiz (comprised of multiple choice, short answer or fill-in questions).
Students study a lot of about dentistry like
- the diagnosis
- pathobiology and treatment of different oral diseases in the field of orofacial pain
- including masticatory musculoskeletal pain, neurogenic orofacial pain
- temporomandibular disorders
- headaches
- orofacial motor disorders including orofacial dystonias and bruxism
- intraoral, intracranial, extracranial and systemic disorders that cause orofacial pain
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