Knowledge and understanding: The student must demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge of current national and international guidelines and follow the correct diagnostic and care pathways for individual patients. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: The student must show that he/she has acquired skills, tools and an informed autonomy of judgement in relation to the required clinical activity. Autonomy of judgement: The student will be able to frame and diagnose different clinical pictures and understand the most suitable therapeutic approaches. Communication skills: Acquisition of communication and problem-solving skills towards both patients and colleagues. Ability to learn: The student will have to demonstrate that he/she knows how to follow the correct diagnostic and care pathways offered by the NHS for patients with different degrees of vulnerability.

Concepts of anatomy, physiology and general pathology.

The contents of the clinical intership concern health care, especially for vulnerable patients, epidemiology, prevention and health management in the field of community dentistry.

Italian Ministry of Health website, workbooks relating to community dentistry and guidelines relating to pediatric and adult patients, neonatal age and pregnancy, prevention programs in schools, cancer patients, patients with addictions, special needs patients.

Meaning of dental and community prevention. Community definition and classification. Communities of healthy people, people with internal pathologies or with disabilities. Community in public health centers and main related clinical aspects. Principles of home therapy. Promotion of oral health and health education. Motivation and organization of a preventive program. Secondary and tertiary prevention. Epidemiology, epidemiological indices, etiopathogenetic aspects and preventive strategies of the main oral-dental diseases in pediatric and adult patients. Objectives of prevention in dentistry with notes on prevention programs in schools in the area. Role of the dentist in the prevention of the main oral pathologies. Food education and oral hygiene. Systemic and topical fluoroprophylaxis. Oral health protocol in the pregnant woman. Tooth decay and early childhood caries. Dependence related diseases. Patients with health and social vulnerability. Pathologies associated with oncological treatments and prevention of the main complications drug-related.

Clinical training at the SC (UCO) Clinica di Chirurgia Maxillo-facciale e Odontostomatologia (Clinic of Maxillofacial Surgery and Dentistry) of the "Maggiore Hospital" and at the SCU Odontostomatologia Pediatrica (Pediatric Dentistry) of the Institute for Maternal and Child Health—IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”.

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The assessment will be clinical in nature and is intended to evaluate the student's skills in clinical case management. The evaluation grid adopted is as follows: - Excellent (30 - 30 cum laude): excellent knowledge of the subject matter, excellent ownership of language, excellent analytical ability; the student is able to brilliantly apply theoretical knowledge to clinical cases. - Very good (27 - 29): good knowledge of the subject matter, remarkable command of language, good analytical ability; the student is able to apply theoretical knowledge correctly to clinical cases. - Good (24-26): good knowledge of the main topics, fair language skills; the student shows an adequate ability to apply theoretical knowledge to clinical cases. - Satisfactory (21-23): the student does not show full mastery of the main topics of the course, even though he/she possesses the fundamental knowledge; however, he/she shows satisfactory properties of language and sufficient ability to apply theoretical knowledge to concrete cases. - Sufficient (18-20): minimal knowledge of the main teaching topics and technical language, limited ability to apply theoretical knowledge adequately to clinical cases. - Insufficient: the student/ess does not possess an acceptable knowledge of theory and does not demonstrate sufficient skills in applying the same in the clinical setting. The oral examination is based on questions related to the programme of the C.I. subjects in order to define knowledge and understanding (25%), the ability to apply knowledge and understanding (25%), autonomy of judgement (15%), communication skills (15%) and learning ability (20%), in relation to the basic concepts of the framing, diagnosis and treatment of oro-maxillofacial pathologies. Single final grade for the C.I.

During the course some of the main topics indicated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will be touched: spreading the importance of primary and secondary prevention through the exposure of the population to environmental and anthropic risk factors, the importance of healthy lifestyles by strengthening primary and secondary prevention systems.