WesternU College of Dental Medicine

We offer a full-time 4-year clinical program leading to the Doctor of Dental Medicine degree (DMD) in a learning environment that is student-centered.

The College of Dental Medicine and our curriculum:

- Treats students as members of the profession from the first day.
Features a wide variety of educational methodologies, including traditional lecture, seminars, case-based learning, on-line modules, laboratory, clinical simulation, standardized patient exercises, direct patient care and service learning.

- Emphasizes principles of clinical medicine by integrating dental students in the study of human systems.

- Focuses on the links between oral health and overall health and offers interprofessional learning with other health professions.

- Integrates early direct patient-care experiences to provide contextual relevance for the foundational knowledge and clinical skills you are learning in human systems courses and pre-clinical simulation training.

- Integrates early service-learning opportunities in community-based locations in the first two years that stresses community assessment, education, and preventive programs.

- Offers extensive clinical experience in community-based locations.

- Emphasizes compassionate care, treating the patient as an individual first.

- Integrates patient and practice management into clinical experiences, building critical skills such as; communication, professional ethics, leadership and business management that are required for successful practice.