Dental Medicine · Year 3 · MU Sofia
Dental Public Health
Dental Public Health is taught in Year 3 of the Dental Medicine degree at the Medical University of Sofia, and its syllabus of 38 topics is split into written and oral questions. They cover the history of dental education and of dentistry as a profession, the dental health service and types of treatment facilities, health legislation, management, marketing, financing and health insurance, and dentistry in the EU. Later topics turn to health promotion and prevention, epidemiological and sociological methods, caries and periodontal indices, dental ergonomics and equipment, teamwork, occupational hazards, cross-infection control and burnout. AceMed has a note for every topic, written as text without pictures or tables, under two hours of reading in all, with 228 flashcards.
The full MU Sofia syllabus for Dental Public Health, Dental Medicine, Year 3: 38 topics, every one with a free study note (2 hours of reading), and 228 flashcards. Updated 2 November 2026.
- syllabus topics
- 38
- free notes
- 38
- flashcards
- 228
- of reading
- 2 h
Syllabus
The topics in the order of the MU Sofia syllabus. Each one with a note opens in AceMed once you're signed in.
Written questions 12 topics
- 1. History of dental education in Bulgaria and in the world.2 min · 6 cards
- 2. Dental Health Service. Factors influencing its development.2 min · 6 cards
- 3. Types of medical treatment facilities according to the Act on Medical Treatment Facilities.2 min · 6 cards
- 4. Legal norms. Hierarchy of legislation.3 min · 6 cards
- 5. Healthcare management – management cycle.3 min · 6 cards
- 6. Marketing. Basic marketing concepts.3 min · 6 cards
- 7. Dental health. Basic characteristics.3 min · 6 cards
- 8. Health promotion – definition and basic principles.2 min · 6 cards
- 9. Sociological methods. Observation and documentary method.2 min · 6 cards
- 10. Ergonomic standards for planning of dental surgery.3 min · 6 cards
- 11. Dental equipment.3 min · 6 cards
- 12. Approaches in providing dental health care services.3 min · 6 cards
Oral questions 26 topics
- 1. History of dentistry (dental medicine) as a profession.2 min · 6 cards
- 2. Dentistry in the EU: healthcare systems, harmonization of legislation.4 min · 6 cards
- 3. International health cooperation – forms and organizations.3 min · 6 cards
- 4. Health legislation – basic acts governing the health care system.4 min · 6 cards
- 5. Healthcare management. Levels of management.2 min · 6 cards
- 6. Healthcare financing – financing systems.3 min · 6 cards
- 7. Health insurance system. National Framework Agreement.3 min · 6 cards
- 8. Dental health problems of priority groups of population – children and adolescents; pregnant women; people working in harmful conditions; patients with chronic diseases; elderly people.3 min · 6 cards
- 9. Oral health prevention. Primary prevention.4 min · 6 cards
- 10. Epidemiology – brief history.3 min · 6 cards
- 11. Planning and organizing an epidemiological study – basic stages.3 min · 6 cards
- 12. Sociological methods. Questionnaire survey and interview.2 min · 6 cards
- 13. Indices of dental caries morbidity.3 min · 6 cards
- 14. Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs (CPITN).3 min · 6 cards
- 15. Dental ergonomics – definition and basic concepts.3 min · 6 cards
- 16. Dental equipment – general characteristics and performance guidelines.2 min · 6 cards
- 17. Dental ergonomics: patient's position, working postures of the dentist, positions of the dental team.2 min · 6 cards
- 18. Dental ergonomics: spaces of reach, types of delivery system, handling dental instruments.2 min · 6 cards
- 19. Teamwork. Four-handed dentistry, types of dental auxiliaries. Time management.3 min · 6 cards
- 20. Occupational hazards in dental practice and their prevention. Biological factors.3 min · 6 cards
- 21. Cross-infection control in dental practice.3 min · 6 cards
- 22. Occupational hazards in dental practice and their prevention. Chemical and physical factors.3 min · 6 cards
- 23. Occupational hazards in dental practice and their prevention. Incorrect working posture, stress, work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSD).3 min · 6 cards
- 24. Burnout syndrome and its prevention.2 min · 6 cards
- 25. Basic regulations and sequence for dental surgery registration.2 min · 6 cards
- 26. Basic regulations and sequence for dental practice startup.2 min · 6 cards
Other Year 3 subjects
- Hygiene and Epidemiology21 notes
- Pharmacology93 notes
- Preclinical Paediatrics40 notes
- Preclinics of Conservative Dental Medicine53 notes
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