The Master in Oral Pathology and Medicine prepares graduates in healthcare professionals in processing suspected diagnoses, and in the prevention and treatment of specific hard and soft tissues pathologies of the mouth.
The most relevant professional figures include Dental Hygienists, responsible for mouth disease prevention; Nurses, who manage patients affected by specific mouth diseases; Speech Therapists, to expand their knowledge of anatomy and mouth diseases; Obstetricians, who, as indicated by current literature, should be capable of identifying any mouth diseases to reduce any possible complications for the unborn child. At the end of the course, students will master oral diseases, with proper care and management of patients, while ensuring the highest, most distinctive treatment level compared to professionals who have never explored these topics.
The Master in Oral Pathology and Medicine provides in-depth knowledge on:
- Mouth anatomy, physiology and physiopathology, and related systemic implications
- Hands-on practice, including role playing on the clinical cases examined
- Development of independent judgement skills, from a clinical, ethical and deontological standpoint
- Acquisition of a technical language to facilitate a dialogue between professionals specialized in different areas
- Ability to talk with the patient, ensuring an emphatic communication and adequate understanding of the clinical framework, to obtain an actual informed consent on possible treatments
- Practical application of the knowledge acquired during lessons and seminars in the clinical activity
The Master in Oral Pathology and Medicine is addressed to healthcare professionals with the relevant title, qualified to practice, and registered in the related professional registers. It is also addressed to professionals who work in hospitals or in private practices.
Its transposition in a professional context concerns the ability to manage specific cases of mouth disease, and to identify severe diseases that should be referred to a private practice, clinical or hospital setting.
The Master in Oral Pathology and Medicine provides in-depth knowledge and insights on:
HISTOPATHOLOGICAL, CITOLOGICAL, AND IMMUNOISTOCHEMICAL DIAGNOSTIC
- Histopathological, citological and immunoistochemical diagnostic methods
- Collection techniques from the pathologist’s standpoint
- Preparation set-up techniques
- First-level and advanced diagnostic methods
- Molecular typing diagnostic methods
- Immunoistochemistry advanced diagnostic methods
DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING
- Selecting the best diagnostic imaging technique available in a reasoned and ethically justifiable manner, with the reasonably lower exposure
HAEMATOLOGY
- Oncohaematological pathologies and their implications in mouth diseases
ENDOCRINOLOGY
- Endocrinological pathologies and their implications in mouth diseases
HEMOSTASIS PATHOLOGIES
- Hemostasis pathologies, including drug-induced ones
EMERGENCY TREATMENT
- Local and locoregional anaesthesia and sedation
- Medical and surgical emergency treatment during oral surgeries
MAXILLARY OSTEONECROSIS
- Maxillary osteonecrosis related to drug use and radiation therapy
SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS
- Surgical complications in oral and maxillofacial surgery
La graduatoria generale di merito per l’a.a. 2024/2025 sarà disponibile qui, secondo le tempistiche dell’avviso di selezione.
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This Master is an important opportunity for healthcare professionals (dental hygienists, nurses, obstetricians, speech therapists) interested in acquiring competences such as: processing a suspected diagnosis, preventing and treating specific diseases of hard and soft tissues of the mouth. Also, since it is a First-Level Master, it exonerates from ECM-related obligations for one year.
The course will condense the theoretical part in 6 days during the academic year 2024/2025.
A different topic will be treated in each session, to ensure new perspectives for day-to-day clinical practice. Classroom lessons are always held on Saturdays (full day) every 2 months, with a mandatory attendance of 70% of the lessons. The theoretical part is linked to the practical part, where knowledge acquired during lessons is consolidated.
Hands-on practiceis essential to master the topics treated in the Master, and for this reason, students will flank tutors and attendings of the Oral Pathology and Medicine clinic, at the Dental Clinic of the Universal Hospital of Padua. Students can decide when to attend the ward, between Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (between 8AM and 1 PM). On these days, there will be different clinical activities, to encompass all the interesting aspects of oral diseases.
The final exam will be an oral test.