Marquette University School of Dentistry

Academics

The curriculum involves students in a model of dental education that mimics a dental practice. Students will be trained to develop and utilize all their skills, as competent clinicians and diagnosticians, to identify and manage the multiple oral health concerns of their patients. Students will take fewer courses. Instead, the curriculum combines courses into itnegrated, multidisciplinary tracks that link traditional dental disciplines and provide learning experiences designed to integrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Students will move through curricular tracks as members of small practice groups. They will participate in dental rounds (a concept borrowed from the medical education model) with faculty leading discussions of dental cases and bringing in the pharmacological and medical concerns that should be considered in planning and rendering dental care. Students will dedicate up to 25% of their time working at off-campus dental projects sponsored by Marquette University. Grading Policy The performance of students is evaluated by conventional classroom and clinical testing. Proficiency examinations are carried out in major clinical disciplines to determine the extent of a student’s capabilities.