Dental 311general internal medicine

311 GIM

The 3rd & 4th year dental students study Dental 311 general internal medicine course. It includes different lecture covering important medical subspecialties.

 

Dentists are mostly trained to provide treatment for patients with straightforward problems that respond to routine therapy and do not recur. However,Patients may present to dentists and complain solely of resistant chronic or recurrent physical symptoms such as toothache, headache, and facial pain. After many  inappropriate investigations & treatments these physical symptoms are revealed to be due to emotional disturbance. Anxiety in dental setting may manifest itself as a phobia, or a dysmorphic concern about certain aspects of patients’ appearance.

 

The psychiatry lectures try to cover many intersecting points between these two subspecialties.