COURSE GUIDE ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY OF DENTISTRY Academic Year: 2016/2017 1. Basic information......2 2. Contextual information... 2 3. Specific competences.... 3 4. General competences (cross-competences)... 3 5. Content.4 6. Classroom activities... 7 7. Teaching methodology... 7 8. Evaluation procedure... 8 9. Materials... 9 10. Calendar... 10 1
1. Basic information Course name: Anthropology and History of Dentistry Degree: BSc in DENTISTRY Year: First year Credits ECTS: 3 Modality: Campus-based Code of the subject 9999001104 Requirements: N/A Professor s name: FÁTIMA MARTÍN MUÑOZ Tutorials: The professor will assign a specific time for tutorials depending on the group and its schedule. Students can also contact the professor sending an email through moodle or to the professor s email address. 2. Contextual information. The course of Anthropology and History of dentistry contributes to get an integrated formation in the field of dentistry. This formation will be necessary to achieve a professional excellence. Besides studying the social and cultural evolution of disease and the development of the dental profession, the student will examine the most important events and main authors whose achievements have contributed to the development of modern dentistry. All of the above will be analyzed not only from a social but also from a humanistic view. The course of Anthropology and History of Dentistry is taught in Spanish and English in the first year of the Bachelor s degree in Dentistry. 2
The main objectives are: o o o o To define the field of dentistry as a science and a profession. To analyze from an anthropological view the evolution of health and disease concepts and the bioethical values that structure the dental profession. To provide information about the practice and exercise of the dentistry profession, as well as it relation with cultural and social aspects. To study the major events and achievements that have occurred in the historical evolution of the dental knowledge. 3. Specific competences. IIn this course, students will develop the following skills: CE1. Recognise the basic elements of the dental profession, including the ethical principles and legal responsibilities. CE2. Understand the importance of those principles for the benefit of the patient, society and profession, taking special attention to the professional secret. CE4. Understand and recognize the social and psychological aspects relevant to the treatment of patients. CE6. Understand the importance of the development of a professional practice respectful with the patient s autonomy, beliefs and culture. CE11. Understand the basic biomedical science which is the basis of dentistry in order to guarantee a correct oral assistance. CE19. Knowledge of the scientific method and critical capacity to assess the established knowledge and new information. Be able to formulate hypotheses, collect and critically evaluate information for problem solving, using the scientific method. 4. General competences (cross-competence). In this course, students will develop the following skills: CT3. Ability to adapt to new situations: Being able to work under different conditions, different people and various groups. Valuing and understanding different positions, adapting their own approach as the situation demands. CT6. Oral Communication / Written Communication: Communication is the process by which we transmit and receive data, ideas, opinions and attitudes to achieve understanding and action; being oral the one that is performed by words and gestures and written the one done by writing and / or graphics support. CT7. Ethical value awareness: Ability to think and act according to the universal principles based on the personal values aimed at his full development related to the commitment of determined social values. CT8. Information management: Ability to search, choose, analyse and integrate information from different sources.
5. Content (Syllabus) 1.- DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Concept. Medical and dental anthropology. 2. THE PRIMITIVE WORLD. Precolumbian America. Contemporary nonindustrialized societies. 3.- PRE-SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE. 4.- THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST. Mesopotamia. The Phoenicians. The Hebrews. The Egyptians. 5.- EASTERN CULTURES. India, China, Japan. 6.- PALEOPATHOLOGY. Study of ancient diseases. 7.- THE CLASSICAL WORLD. Greece. Etruria. Rome. 8.- THE ISLAMIC WORLD. Arabic scholarship. Advances in pharmacology and Oral Hygiene 4
9.- THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES. The Byzantine World. Western Europe: fifth to twelfth centuries. 10.- THE DENTAL PRACTICE OF HYGIENISTS AND DENTAL TECHNICIANS. Professional skills and competences. 11.-THE LATE MIDDLE AGES IN SPAIN WESTERN EUROPE: THIRTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES. Herbal medicine and Folk remedies. The rise of surgery. 12.- BIOETHICS Concept and development of professional bioethics. 13.- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DENTAL PROFESSION. 14.- THE RENAISSANCE (I). Advances in anatomical knowledge, pharmacology and surgery. 15.- THE RENAISSANCE (II). Renaissance in Spain. Francisco Martínez de Castrillo. 16.- THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN EUROPE AND SPAIN. Scientific discoveries and medical practice. 5
17.- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (I) The Eighteenth Century in Europe. Pierre Fauchard. Prosthetic dentistry. 18.- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (I) The nineteenth century in Europe and North America. Inventions and patent wars. Revolutionary developments. 19.-. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (I). The development of professional specialties. Advances in technique, equipment and practice. 20.- THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (II). The twentieth century in Spain. 6
6. Classroom activities. The classroom activities consist of the following: Lectures, test on-line, research projects, seminar about professional excellence as an important base to develop the professional activity. FORMATIVE ACTIVITIES ECTS % Seminars 0,3 ECTS 7,5h 50% Team assignments 0,2 ECTS 5h 50% Lectures 0,7 ECTS 17,5h 50% Tutorials 0,3 ECTS 7,5h 50% Test of knowledge 0,2 ECTS - 5h 100% Self-study 1,3 ECTS 31,5h 0% 7. Teaching methodology. Lectures. Cooperative learning. Problem-based learning. 7
8. Evaluation procedure. Theoretical part: 50% of the final score. The theoretical grade must be equal or greater than 5. Practical part: 50% of the final score. The practical grade must be equal or greater than 5. In order to pass the subject is necessary to obtain a grade of 5 in each part of the subject. THEORETICAL PART: Students will have two opportunities to pass the course through the semester. There will be two multiple-choice tests (MID-TERM tests). - FIRST MIDTERM TEST. It will contain the first part of the syllabus. It will be held on November 23rd 2016. In the case that a student has not pass the FIRST MIDTERM TEST, there will be a make up exam (a new opportunity) in June. Those students that fail the course in the ordinary examination will have the right to a extraordinary examination in July. - SECOND MIDTERM TEST. It will contain the second part of the syllabus and the 10% of questions of the first part of the syllabus (from the first midterm). It will be held on January 11st 2017. There will be no make up exams so those students that fail the course in the ordinary examination will have the right to a extraordinary examination in July. Each of the different tests will consist of 30 questions with 4 multiple choice answers. It will assess the lectures given by the professor in class. The multiple choice test with 4 options will be corrected penalizing the wrong answers (- 0.33 for wrong answer) 8
Each wrong answer will be penalized (by subtracting 0,33). The exam will take 40 minutes and will be passed with a grade of 5 (15/30) or higher. PRACTICAL PART: 20% Abstract Project 20% Project Oral presentation 10% Practical activities and attendance In order to pass the practical part is necessary to complete: Project Oral presentation (If not completed, the student will have to retake the practical part in July 2016) 9. Materials RING, M. Dentistry: an ilustrated history, New York, Harry S. Abrams, St. Louis, MO, C.V. Mosby Co., 1985. WYNBRANDT, J. The excruciating history of dentistry, New York, St Martin s Griffin, 1998 HOFFMANN-AXTHELM, W. History of Dentistry, Chicago: Quintessence Publishing Co., 1981. HILLSON, S. Dental Anthropology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. KIPLE, K. et al: The Cambridge World History of Human Disease, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1993. CAMPBELL, J. Dentistry then and now, third ed., Glasgow, Bell and Bain Ltd., 1981. 9
http://anthropology.osu.edu/daa/dentalanthropologyjournal.htm THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF DENTISTRY www.histden.org/journal.htm AMERICAN ACADEMY OF THE HISTORY OF DENTISTRY www.histden.org/drupal/ SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE HISTORIA DE LA ODONTOLOGÍA: http://www.sociedadseho.com/ SOCIETÉ FRANCAIS D HISTOIRE DE L ART DENTAIRE: www.bium.univparis5.fr/sfhad/ 10.- Calendar. Each week, the professor will provide though Moodle the material and resources necessary in the following unit and classroom activity. 10