DEN207Y/DPP111H Dental Public Health

Welcome to the DEN207Y/DPP111H course guide. This guide is a supplement to the library session of the course DEN207Y/DPP111H: 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.

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 a quiz that you will complete by 11:59pm on Monday, April 6, 2020. The assignment is worth 5% of your mark and will be available in the Modules under Tutorial Assignments in Quercus. 

The following resources 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