DEN207Y Dental Public Health

Welcome to the DEN207Y course guide. This guide is a supplement to the library session of the course DEN207Y: Dental Public Health. We hope that you find it useful. It was created by the dentistry librarians in collaboration with Dr. Amir Azarpazhooh DEN207, Course Director, and Dr. Mohamed El-Rabbany.

The library session is meant to provide you with tools that you can use to quickly find evidence-based information for clinical decisions. The learning objectives of the sessions are:

The library component of the course will include an assignment that you will complete by April 13t, 2018 at 5:00 pm. You will have some time during the session April 6th to work the assignment. The assignment is worth 5% of your mark and will be available under Term Quizzes in Blackboard. 

The following articles are relevant for the lecture. They are not mandatory but they are good background readings:

Brignardello-Petersen, R., Carrasco-Labra, A., Glick, M., Guyatt, G. H., & Azarpazhooh, A. (2014). A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: understanding and applying the principles of EBD. Journal of the American Dental Association, 145(11), 1105-1107. doi: 10.14219/jada.2014.102

Brignardello-Petersen, R., Carrasco-Labra, A., Booth, H. A., Glick, M., Guyatt, G. H., Azarpazhooh, A., & Agoritsas, T. (2014). A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: How to search for evidence to inform clinical decisions. Journal of the American Dental Association, 145(12), 1262-1267. doi: 10.14219/jada.2014.113