Program Title:  Dentistry (Georgian program)

Awarded qualification: Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D)

Duration and Volume of Program in Credits:  program duration is 5 academic years (10 Semesters) and includes 300 credits

Language of Education program: Georgian

Head of the Program: 

Vladimer Margvelashvili - Professor, DMD; D.M.Scie.(Dent.); Department of Dentistry, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University 

The goal of educational program in Dentistry is:

• Providing the students with the knowledge, relevant to the international dental educational standards and developing appropriate skills;
• Preparing highly qualified specialists, whose professional activities will enhance the quality of dental services, prevention of dental diseases, improve the general health of the mouth and body;
• Enabling the graduate to plan and implement complex dental treatment and further monitoring of the patients.
• Developing  graduates' ability of making logical analysis of the observed, heard and manifested symptoms, in order to link them further into the single pathogenetic process.

Prerequisite:

An individual with full general education or equivalent, who has a corresponding state-approved document (certificate) and has earned the right to study on the program based on the results of the Unified National Exams is enrolled at the one-step program "Dentistry".

After graduating all students will be able to:

• Describe/identify chemical, biochemical, molecular, microbiological and histological processes in normal and pathological conditions in the human body, particularly of the mouth (head and neck region).
• Classify, describe, differentate and identify those somatic diseases, which are closely related to oral cavity diseases (stomatopathy);
• Describe and review general research methods, including biostatistic and epidemiological;
• Discuss, review and generalize health care and ethical aspects, list and formulate legal issues of patient's rights and medical practice;
• Identify/diagnose and classify of oral cavity diseases and conditions; Describe and review methods of prevention, making diagnosis and treatment, determine the possibilities of preserving the results of treatment.
• describe the main groups of therapeutic and preventive drugs, describe and discuss the mechanisms of actions and interactions; describe dental materials and the area of usage,
• Describe the methods safety management of doctor and patient;
•  Obtain, sort and interprete the latest thematic literature, evidence based medicine (dentistry) data independently;
• Describe the methods of managing urgent medical conditions
• Selection, planning, analyzing and practicing methods of prevention, making diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases. Planning and organizing ensuring oral health;
• Effective management of the team work;
• Selecting, analyzing the methods of planning, implementation and evaluation of basic and alternative public health measures for ensuring oral health;
• Planning, integrating and utilizing data synthesis, diagnostics and treatment methods in cases of complicated clinical situations and special need conditions based on the latest data;
• Presenting, defending and agreing ideas and consempts, proposals, solutions, conclusions and recommendations in oral, in written or online in academic, professional circles, and with a patient or people accompaning the patient in native and English languages.
• Reviewing, evaluating, planning scientific literature and research projects
• Protect own ethical and legal norms in interpersonal relationships based on social, religious equality and democratic values;
• The protection of patient's rights and requirements of the professional ethics;

After graduating all students will be able to:

• Continue medical practice as a junior dentist (junior dentist shall perform the duties of a doctor according to the instructions and under the responsibility of an independent dental practitioner)
• Be engaged in pedagogical and scientific activities
• Take a residency course
• Take a doctoral program