Table 1.
Learning topics of the integrated pediatric dentistry course for the fifth-year dental students in the dental school of National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2022.
| Item | Topic | Hour | Teacher |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specialty | Gender | |||
| 1 | Normal dental development | 1 | Dentist, pedodontist | Male |
| 2 | Psychological growth and development | 1 | ||
| 3 | Treatment planning for the child patients | 1 | Dentist, pedodontist | Female |
| 4 | Dental caries: prevention | 1 | Dentist, pedodontist | Female |
| 5 | Pit and fissure sealant and preventive resin restoration | 1 | ||
| 6 | Dental caries in young children | 1 | Dentist, pedodontist | Male |
| 7 | Management of child's behavior in dental practice | 2 | Dentist, pedodontist | Female |
| 8 | Pulp therapy for primary and young permanent teeth | 2 | ||
| 9 | Management of dental trauma in children | 2 | ||
| 10 | Restoration of primary dentition | 2 | Dentist, pedodontist | Male |
| 11 | Problems in transition of dentition | 2 | ||
| 12 | Sedation and general anesthesia for child dental patients | 1 | Dentist, pedodontist | Female |
| 13 | Dentistry for the special needs | 1 | ||
| 14 | Infant nutrition and feeding related to oral health | 1 | Physician, pediatrician | Female |
| 15 | Blood diseases and its relevant to dental management | 1 | Physician, pediatrician | Male |
| 16 | Neurological disorders and the management | 1 | Physician, pediatrician | Male |
| 17 | Growth and development (general) | 1 | Physician, pediatrician | Male |
| 18 | Endocrine disorders | 1 | Physician, pediatrician | Female |
| 19 | Inherited and metabolic diseases | 1 | Physician, pediatrician | Female |
| 20 | Cardiac diseases and its relevant to dental management | 1 | Physician, pediatrician | Male |
| 21 | Allergy and the management | 1 | Physician, pediatrician | Male |
| 22 | Common childhood viral diseases (Influenza, Epstein-Barr virus and enterovirus 71) | 1 | Physician, pediatrician | Male |
| 23 | Mental problems in children | 1 | Physician, psychiatrist | Male |