Medical students in the 2014 and 2015 classes at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine are the first in the new groundbreaking program that includes 30 hours of oral health education and clinical practice during the first two years of medical school.
Traditionally, medical students received little oral health education. A medical school program that includes and even emphasizes oral health highlights the newly discovered importance of the connection between good oral health and overall health.
This program will include both education and clinical training in several oral health areas including oral exams, oral cancer, oral manifestations of systemic diseases, common oral pathologies, and on-site training in a dental clinic. All of this will be done within the first two years of medical school. Viriginia Tech is continuing to work on incorporating oral health education for the third and fourth years.
For more information on this groundbreaking curriculum change, follow the link below:
R. Eric Emery, DDS
2901 Dougherty Ferry Rd, Suite 400
St. Louis, MO 63122
(314)821-7100
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