2018-2019 Catalog

Dental Assisting Certificate

My Academic Plan

My Academic Plans (MAPs) are designed by faculty and displayed in a semester format showing the fastest path to finishing your certificate or degree. While this is the ideal, you can take courses as your schedule permits. Contact an academic advisor regarding your scheduling needs.

In most cases, the courses you need are available on your selected campus. However, there may be times to complete courses online or travel to another FRCC campus. Location availability is indicated at the time of registration.

Program Description

What You Will Learn

  1. Students will have the necessary skills to calculate, interpret, apply, evaluate, and communicate numerical information.
  2. Students will engage in critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make patient-centered care decisions.
  3. Students will participate in collaborative relationships with members of the clinical team, patient, faculty, community dental practices and peers in written and verbal communications.
  4. Students will use information management principles, techniques, and systems to manage knowledge, support decision making and reduce errors in the dental patient care and their own personal academic knowledge.
  5. Students will promote a culture of caring providing compassionate, ethical, legal, and professional patient care.
  6. Students will present themselves in a professional manner while in the dental clinic on campus and internship sites.
  7. Students will establish and maintain a safe learning environment for their peers, staff, and faculty.
  8. Students will establish, maintain, and practice in a safe dental clinic while following the guidelines that have been established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
  9. Students will be prepared to take and pass the Dental Assisting National Board Exam.
  10. Students will participate in the American Dental Assistants Association as a student member learning leadership skills that then can be used in the work place.

First Semester

Courses should be completed in the order listed below. If you are unable to complete the entire semester list, complete as many courses in this sequence as your schedule allows.

DEA 102Principles of Clinical Practice

3

DEA 111Dental Office Management

2

DEA 120Introduction to Dental Practices

1

DEA 121Dental Science I

3

DEA 123Dental Materials I

3

DEA 125Dental Radiography

3

DEA 126Infection Control

3

DEA 132Medical Emergencies in the Dental office

2

DEA 134Prevention and Nutrition in Dentistry

3

DEA 181Clinical Internship I

1

Total Credit Hours:24

Second Semester

Courses should be completed in the order listed below. If you are unable to complete the entire semester list, complete as many courses in this sequence as your schedule allows.

DEA 104Specialties in Dentistry

2

DEA 122Dental Science II

3

DEA 124Dental Materials II

3

DEA 131Advanced Dental Radiography

3

DEA 182Clinical Internship II

2

DEA 183Dental Clinical Internship III

6

COM 115Public Speaking

3

Total Credit Hours:22

Total Credit Hours: 46