Medical and Surgical Dentist
Make me smile
Career field
On graduating from a Dental Degree, you will be able to participate professionally in the following settings:
- Private office
- Public and private health institutions
- Research in oral health
Is this right for you?
If you are passionate about dental and oral health, and are good with people, then you are on the right path with a Medical and Surgical Dentist career.
The Medical and Surgical Dentist program aims to train professionals who have a broad and solid knowledge of the health sciences, with skills and abilities to diagnose, prevent and treat oral diseases and conditions with an interdisciplinary approach, through the use of innovative techniques and procedures, in order to help preserve the integral well-being of the human being.
Competences
- Promote oral health in individuals and the community, through innovative strategies for the prevention of oral problems.
- Apply evidence-based medical knowledge of oral health and dentistry to comprehensive dental-patient care, diagnosis and management.
- Perform dental treatments and oral rehabilitation for healthy patients with special needs, through a patient-centered care model.
Entry profile
Tecnológico de Monterrey is looking for a new generation of students that have finished their high school studies and are talented, enthusiastic individuals, who are committed to the development of their environment and the wellbeing of society; people who have the potential to study an undergraduate program and become leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit, humanistic sense and competitive on an international stage.
Entry requirements: High school or equivalent.
The three stages of the model
Choose your path
Exploration
- You will open your competency file and add to it throughout your degree program.
- You will learn the foundations of the area of Business.
- You will participate in fundamental and exploration challenges from the area of Business, interacting with peers from different degree programs.
- You will study general education courses, selecting them from a collection.
- You will participate in a challenge that integrates all the competencies to be developed in this phase.
Focus
- You will acquire the core competencies of your degree, in other words, those that distinguish it.
- You will participate in more focused challenges to reinforce what you have learned and broaden your basic knowledge.
- You will have the elements to decide whether to deepen your knowledge or diversify and, subsequently, build your specialization plan.
- The Tec Weeks, challenges and overall university experiences will enrich your file.
Specialization
- You have decided whether to diversify or delve further into your degree, by choosing a concentration, a modality, an internship stay, to mention just a few of your options. The Tec Semester is a flexible-time space to get started.
- You will develop the competencies related to your specialization, increasingly connected to your passions, interests and plans.
- If you decided to opt for a concentration, on graduating you will obtain a professional concentration certificate issued by the Office of the Registrar at your campus.
How can you specialize?
Concentrations
Specialize in one of the different concentrations available at the campus of your choice, according to the profile you would like to develop.
Internships
Internships allow you to participate in the development of specific projects with companies, organizations, or research groups, in a context of total immersion related to a specialty field. They can be carried out locally, nationally or internationally.
International experiences
Experience life outside Mexico to broaden your horizons and delve into the topics of your interest.
Courses or blocks
Choose the education units that best adapt to your objectives, enabling you to specialize in your specific interests.
Concentrations
Disciplinary
Delve into your field of study
There are no disciplinary concentrations for this degree
Transversal
Delve into other fields of study
- Conscious Business
- Entrepreneurial Families, Sustainability and Transcendence
- Financial Vision for Decision-Making
*These concentraciones are not the definitive offer and their availability varies by campus.
General education course
Area exploration courses
Introductory block (CHALLENGE)
Area exploration block (CHALLENGE)
Exploration topic (CHALLENGE)
Track integrating block (CHALLENGE)
Disciplinary course
Disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
Integrating disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
TEC Semester
Multidisciplinary professional elective (CHALLENGE)
Final integrating block (CHALLENGE)
| MO |
| Primer Trimestral |
| Dentistry Clinic I |
| Legal and Administrative Processes in Dentistry |
| Forensic Dentistry |
| Bioetics |
| Multidisciplinary Healthcare |
| Quality Healthcare and Patient Safety |
| Segundo Trimestral |
| Clinical Elective I |
| Clinical Elective II |
| Clinical Elective III |
| Professional Elective I |
| Professional Elective II |
| Professional Elective III |
| Tercer Trimestral |
| Dentistry Clinic II |
| Evidence-based Dentistry |
| Dental Information Analysis |
| Cuarto Trimestral |
| Dentistry Clinic III |
| Advanced Dentistry Seminar |
| Clinical Research in Dentistry |
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