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4 ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM

Description.
The Dental School strives to promote development in its students of those values
that should characterize them, such as:
A. Personal Commitment
B. Social Commitment
C. Commitment to the Environment
D. Continuing Improvement
E. Team Work
F. Discipline in Work
G. Ethical Conduct
H. Spirituality

The curriculum states that its graduates must have the following Skills.

The Ability to manage, refer to, articulate and apply the norms and regulations
regarding the area of health, coming to point of complete assimilation in the
application of ethical, legal and regulatory concepts related to the profession.

In addition, among the Attitudes and Values graduates must have are:
A. Permanent renewal of knowledge in the dental field in order to ensure
quality treatment.
B. A reflective and critical attitude to the profession with an aim to
awareness of its possibilities and limitations.
C. A methodological and ordered approach in order to create efficiency in
professional dental work.
D. Empathy and tolerance with a view to good doctor-patient
communication, creating trust and an attitude of collaboration in
treatment.
E. Constant availability to attend to patients according to their treatment
needs.

This is also taught at an institutional level in Humanities, which form part of the
Formative Axis of the curriculum. The courses, which all students of the University
take, promote the development of an ethical and moral conscience which forms the
base of their future development in society. The Formative Process of the Person,
Philosophical Anthropology, Man as a Community Being, and Man as a Social
Being. As well as learning from the Institutional subjects, together with the support
given in health sciences courses, students are given instruction and training and
learn to develop their abilities to take as second nature the ethical and legal
concepts basic to their profession in subjects such as: Professional Ethics, Medical
and Clinical Propedeutics, Handling Patients with Medical Problems,
Comprehensive Dental Care Clinic I to VII
Through achieving the objectives of the programs, students come to know value,
apply and become attuned to ethics by means of three general types of judgment:
A. On actions or rules that are or are not right (action theory),
B. On the value of non-moral things (value theory)
C. On the value of desirable traits with respect to values (Virtue Theory)

The general objectives of the subjects that seek to reinforce the human and ethical
values of students are:

The Formative Process of the Person.

On completion of the course, students will be able to identify and analyze the
concept of humanity in a Christian-Anthropological plane and will gain concrete
knowledge of themselves as people capable of constructing their own personalities
in order to realize themselves fully and with ongoing maturity.

Philosophical Anthropology
On completion of the course, students will be able to recognize and explain the
principal ideas that exist about the concept of Man and analyze the concept of
human dignity.

Man as a Community Being

On completion of the course, students will be able to analyze the importance of the
Christian family nourished by the sacrament of marriage in such a way as to orient
their lives in accordance with the tenets of the Church.

Psychology as Applied to Dental Practice

On completion of the course, students will be able to employ psychological
techniques and tools that will enable them to create and maintain good clinician-
patient relationships with a view to obtaining collaboration and continuance up to
the conclusion of treatment.

Man as a Social Being

On completion of the course, students will be able to analyze the reality of
worldwide society, recognizing themselves as participants in the quest for social
justice.

Professional Ethics
Students will analyze the role of ethics in their professions. They will identify
situations in which ethics may be applied to their specific professional area.

Biosafety
On completion of the course, students will be able to apply the techniques
necessary for the prevention of contamination and cross infection among patients,
and clinical and laboratory personnel in order to avoid environmental damage.
Management of Patients with Medical Problems
On completion of the course, students will be able to identify systemic illnesses in
dental patients and design treatment plans for the management of healthy and
medically compromised patients.

Medical and Clinic Propedeutics

On completion of the course, students will be able to apply the most common
techniques employed in the identification of systemic and oral illnesses.