该项目是一个全日制的、连续的、为期46个月的队列项目，共有270人参加.5/280.5 credit hours (for students participating in the 10 credit hour Research Elective during the Summer of the D-1 year)culminating in the receipt of the DMD degree. The curriculum includes eleven consecutive semesters of academic and clinical education. The projected life of the program is ongoing but will admit only one cohort per year.
The competency-based curriculum design is based on the American Dental Education Association’s (ADEA) Competencies for the New General Dentist. 当达到, it predicts with confidence that students have attained the knowledge; clinical, 研究, 批判性思维, 实践管理, 行为, and interpersonal skills; clinical experience; sound clinical judgment; professional and 道德 behavior; and patient care training to provide comprehensive oral health care to diverse patients of all ages and conditions of physical, 精神, 以及情绪健康. The 39 competency statements address the following domains of competence: Critical Thinking, 专业, 沟通, 及人际交往能力, 健康促进, 实践管理, 和信息, Patient Care; Assessment, 诊断, and Treatment Planning; and Establishment and Maintenance of Oral Health.
The 39 competency statements for the “New General Dentist” are developed as the overarching goals for achievement, 的课程, 学习活动, 临床病例, 技能开发练习和实验室, 行为训练, 以及临床培训, 并在病人护理过程中成为一个整体, 由称职的普通牙医. “Competency” assumes that all taught behaviors and skills are performed with a degree of quality consistent with patient well-being and that the general dentist can self-evaluate treatment effectiveness. 以能力为本的牙科教育, what the students learn is based upon clearly articulated competencies and further assumes that all behaviors/abilities are supported by foundation knowledge and psychomotor skills in the biomedical, 行为, 道德, 临床牙科学, and informatics areas that are essential for independent and unsupervised performance as an entry-level general dentist.
The curriculum was designed to ensure that learning experiences will lead to the development of these competencies. The curriculum is firmly rooted in evidence and largely modeled after Bruner’s spiral curriculum approach. 内容介绍, 强调, 并且随着复杂性的增加而加强, 最终在毕业前就能胜任工作. 每次内容都被重新访问, the student gains deeper knowledge of the topic and allows for the reinforcement of information over time, 需要利用先前的知识来指导未来的学习. 通过实施本课程设计, 学生们被提醒，课程不是单一的, 学习也不是孤立的. 每个后续课程或工作单元将建立在之前的内容. 教师 involved in teaching similar content in various years of the curriculum collaborate to develop student learning outcomes that reflect a progression from foundational knowledge to application, 合成, 和评估.
The curriculum design is divided into four categories; Biomedical/Basic Medical Sciences, 口腔健康/临床科学, 行为科学, 和跨专业医疗保健. Based on the topics presented, most courses will be taught with an integrated approach. 在D-1年期间, 生物医学/基础医学课程侧重于“正常”,“身体如何最佳地工作，并以一种有纪律的方式呈现. 春季，MFMII开始介绍疾病的病理学. The D-2 year is about the “Abnormal” presented through traditional medical systems, with the idea
of what happens when the normal systems go awry and result in the clinical manifestation of disease.
在D-1和D-2年期间 of student study in the Biomedical/Basic Medical Sciences, 行为科学, Interprofessional医疗, 口腔健康科学课程包括教学课程. 教师通常会使用传统的评估方式, 仪器, 文学评论, 案例研究, 论文, 和演示来衡量学生的学习和增量能力的成功.
在口腔健康科学课程, the laboratory/preclinical component will be conducted in the technologically advanced simulation clinic. This allows students to begin to apply their knowledge and develop new clinical skills as they learn and demonstrate dental procedures for the faculty. 确定何时获得新的胜任能力, the faculty will introduce simulated clinical examinations to assess student knowledge and skills and to demonstrate their growing competency as they progress to the clinical curriculum for their third and fourth years of study.
在口腔医学院的临床课程, the Oral Health Science coursework in the D-1 and D-2 years evolves into Comprehensive Patient Care in the D-3 and D-4 years. The College of Dental Medicine is committed to providing students with sufficient and diverse patient populations and clinical experiences to attain clinical competency. 大学将提供齐全的设备, 最先进的牙科诊所，丰富和加强他们的学习. The faculty of the College of Dental Medicine will design a series of comprehensive clinical examinations and Clinical Competency Evaluations to assess student knowledge, 行为特征, 临床技能以及其他素质和表现能力, 验证能力的决定.
在D-1和D-2年期间, six semesters consist of didactic courses delivered mostly in a lecture and team-based learning format. The oral health science courses have both didactic and laboratory/preclinic components. 在D-3和D-4年期间, the five semesters consist of 90 weeks (3040 hours) of full-time clinical experience with Comprehensive General Dentistry Seminars during the D-3 year and Advanced Topics in General Dentistry Seminars D-4 year.