KERALAPSC-SYLLABUS-
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN COMMUNITY DENTISTRY (NCA NOTIFICATION)
KERALA MEDICAL EDUCATION SERVICE
(Category No.029/2018)
I. NUTRITION AND ORAL HEALTH
I) Nutrition in Today’s World
1. Understanding Nutrition as the Foundation for General and Oral
Health in the 21st Century
2. What is an Adequate Diet?
3. Energy Balance and Weight Control
II) The Nutrients
4. Carbohydrates
5. Protein for Systemic and Oral Health: Meeting Needs in a
Multicultural World
6. Lipids in Health and Disease
7. The Minerals and Mineralization
8. Fluids and Electrolytes
9. Vitamins Today
10. Dietary Supplements
III) Nutrition in Oral Health
11. Nutrition in the Growth and Development of Oral structures
12. Diet, Nutrition, and Teeth
13. Nutrition and the Periodontium
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IV) Nutrition for Oral Health promotion through the Life Cycle
14. Nutrition for Pregnancy, Lactation, Infancy, and Toddlers
15. Nutrition for Children and Adolescents
16. The Adult and Older Dental Patient
17. Nutritional Concerns for the Dentally Compromised Patient
18. Oral and Nutritional Concerns for Individuals with Special
Medical and Health Care Needs
V) Applied Nutrition in Clinical Practice
19. Effective Communication in Dental Practice
20. Principles of Diet Screening, Risk Assessment, and Guidance
II. SOCIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES
I) Sociology and Its Relevance to Medical Sciences
II) Society
III) Community
IV) Culture
V) Social Groups
VI) Collective Behaviour
VII) Family
VIII) Socialization
IX) Social Control
X) Social Stratification
XI) Social Change
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III. PUBLIC HEALTH
I) Concepts in Health Care
II) Epidemiology of Non-communicable Diseases
III) Demography, Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health
IV) Nutrition
V) School Health Service and Principles of Health Education
VI) Occupational Health
VII) Health Care Systems and National Health Programmes in India
IV. DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH
1. Hospital Administration
2. Dental Needs and Resources
3. Planning and Evaluation in Oral Health
4. School Dental Health Programmes
5. Dental Practice Management
6. Dental Council of India DCI and Indian Consumer Protection Act
7. Behavioural Sciences
8. Forensic Odontology
9. Epidemiology of Dental Caries
10. Epidemiology of Periodontal Diseases
11. Oral Health Education
12. Dental Auxiliaries
13. Financing Dental Care
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14. Indices used in Dentistry
V.SURVEY METHODS IN HEALTH RESEARCH
1. The Planning of Surveys
2. The Coverage of Surveys
3. Basic Ideas of Sampling
4. Types of Sample Design
5. Methods of Data collection
6. Questionnaires
7. Scaling Methods
8. Response Errors
9. Processing Of the Data
10.Analysis, Interpretation And Presentation
VI. EPIDEMIOLOGY
1. Introduction to Epidemiology
2. Epidemiologic Measures
3. Patterns of Occurrence
4. Medical Surveillance
5. Disease Outbreaks
6. Diagnostic Testing
7. Clinical Trials
8. Cohort Studies
9. Case-Control Studies
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10. Variability & Bias
11. Clinical Decision-Making
13. Interpretation of Epidemiologic Literature
VII. BIOSTATISTICS IN ORAL HEALTHCARE
1. Summarizing Data and Clinical Trials
2. Measures of Central Tendency, Dispersion and Skewness
3. Probability and Probability distribution
4. Sampling Distributions
5. Confidence Interval and Sample Size
6. Hypothesis Testing : One and Two sample case
7. Categorical Data Analysis
8. Regression analysis and Correlation
9. One-way and Two-way analysis of Variance
10.Non-Parametric Statistics
11.Survival Analysis
VIII. PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY
1. Caries detection and diagnosis
2. Diagnosis of Periodontal diseases
3. Oral Cancer
4. Evidence-based dentistry
5. The role of Diet in the prevention of Dental diseases
6. Probiotics and Dental Caries risk
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7. Mechanical Plaque control
8. The role of Sugar alcohols, Xylitol, and chewing gums in preventing
dental diseases
9. Ozone in prevention of Dental diseases
10.Protection of the Dentition
11.Tooth erosion
12.The aetiology, diagnosis, and management of dentin hypersensitivity
13.Fluoride therapy
14.Dental sealants
15.Strategies for remineralisation
16.Oral health promotion in infants and preschool age children
17.High risk patients: the frail older adult living in long-term care homes
18.The effective Preventive Dental team
NOTE: - It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed
above, questions from other topics prescribed for the educational
qualification of the post may also appear in the question paper.
There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be covered
in the question paper
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