Clinical Diagnosis
Management

• Perform and document history & physical exam including an informed consent

• Develop and document a pre and post-op management plan

• Develop an understanding of the differential diagnosis and related physiology

• Order fluid and electrolyte therapy as well as blood products

• Order and direct postop oral hygiene therapy

• Order pain medications, diagnostic tests and indicated consults

• Dictate operative note and discharge sumary

• Perform panorex x-rays

• Perform bimanual oral exams

• Order and interpret basic ECG findings

• Perform IV access for sedations

• Perform routine culture and sensitivity

• Perform wound care (dressing changes)

• Perform oral/dental impressions

• Perform routine dental extractions

• Administer local anesthesia

• Perform electrocautery

• Perform wound closure

• Perform wound irrigation and debridement

• Act as first assistant in OR

• Excise superficial skin lesions

• Repair simple lacerations

• Perform needle biopsies*

• Perform incision and drainage (I & D)*

• Place surgical drains*

• Perform simple soft tissue impactions*

• Perform simple intraoral bony contouring (tori )*

• Perform closed reduction of fractures (fx)*