Description
In the degree program in Dentistry and Dental Surgery (MCD) you will develop a profound mastery of stomatology and of the professional medical competencies to provide comprehensive care to your patients.
Additionally, you will experience innovative dental medicine through the use of leading-edge technology.
Objective
We educate and train professionals with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and abilities to serve society by meeting its health needs at the preventative, diagnostic, and treatment stages in an ethical, efficient manner. As an oral-health professional, we want you to appreciate the need for lifelong professional development and continuing education and training. We aim for you to be capable of using scientific and technological advances efficiently and understanding the central role of patients in therapeutic decision-making.
We want you to acquire the knowledge and clinical competence necessary to be able to run a general dental practice independently after you graduate. We also want you to be able to recognize your limitations and seek advice or refer a patient to another professional when faced with situations that are beyond your capabilities. We encourage the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes, and professional behaviors that facilitate your effective and appropriate interaction with patients, your colleagues, and other health professionals.
We promote research as support to the curriculum since it enables the development of constant critical thinking and makes you question your daily work and the most transcendental advances of science on a permanent basis.
Student Learning Outcomes
- You will apply knowledge of basic sciences and clinical sciences to make diagnoses, propose treatments, issue prognoses, and apply preventative measures for ailments within the scope of the practice of a general dentist.
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You will develop an ethical, responsible professional practice to care for patients.
Dentistry and Dental Surgery. Recognition of Official Validity of Studies (RVOE) granted by the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education in accordance with agreement 20090920 dated October 8, 2009. Effective as of February 2015.
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As a graduate of the undergraduate degree program in Dentistry and Dental Surgery, you will be able to work as a(n):
- Dentist and Dental Surgeon
- Endodontist
- Orthodontist
- Pediatric dentist
- Periodontist
- Prosthodontist
- Maxillofacial Surgeon
- Implantologist
- Dental Sleep Doctor
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