Module manager: Victoria Yorke
Email: V.C.Yorke@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2026/27
Successful completion of Year 1 modules
This module is not approved as a discovery module
You will build on your understanding of common dental diseases such as dental caries and periodontal disease and be able to apply this to the clinical management of adult patients. You will develop your basic patient assessment and management skills including patient examination and provision of preventive advice along with core operative skills including the control of dental handpieces and the manipulation of dental materials. You will build your communication skills for effective interactions with patients and the dental team. You will gain clinical experience through observation by assisting senior students, and in the basic dental care of your own patients, under close supervision where your professional behaviours and reflective learning practices will be applied.
This module aims to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours to enable students to manage common dental diseases. Students will develop an understanding of a range of common dental diseases and the treatment options available for management, with an emphasis on preventive management. Students will learn in the simulated clinical skills classroom, working on dental phantom heads to develop basic operative techniques and the manipulation of dental materials. Students will be introduced to principles of replacement of missing teeth. Students will develop their basic communication skills, firstly with simulated patients, and then in the real clinical environment when they will deliver preventive advice to patients.
Students will develop their behaviours in relation to teamworking, communication with patients, ethics and professionalism and self-management within the simulated and real clinical environments. There will be an emphasis on the development of reflection on clinical progress and the constructive use of feedback.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Describe a range of common dental diseases and preventive and operative management options.
2. Describe and demonstrate basic patient assessment processes, the interpretation of clinical information and treatment planning principles for common dental diseases in adult patients.
3. Identify risk factors for common dental diseases in specific patient cases and deliver tailored preventive care to adult patients under supervision.
4. Demonstrate the key elements of safe and evidence-based clinical practice within the simulated and real patient environment, with close supervision.
5. Demonstrate competency in a range of basic operative skills required to manage dental caries, tooth surface loss and periodontal disease in a simulated clinical environment.
6. Demonstrate the behaviours expected of a student dental professional in relation to teamworking, communication with patients, ethics and professionalism, self-management, and reflection on progress in the simulated and real clinical environments.
Demonstrate the communications skills required to work in a clinical learning environment developing a flexible, reflective, and resilient approach:
WR1 - communication
ES5 - self-awareness, adaptability and resilience
Technical
1. Demonstrate appropriate infection prevention and control measures including PPE in the clinical skills environment and clinical settings.
2. Demonstrate safe progression of core skills in simple clinical procedures, the control of rotary and hand instruments and the manipulation of dental materials in the simulated environment.
3. Demonstrate the ability to assist simple operative procedures in real patients under close supervision.
4. Demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, carers and members of the dental team in the clinical setting
Principles of safe working in the clinical environment.
- Mandatory training (e.g. Fire safety, infection prevention and control, health and safety, principles of information governance)
- Infection prevention and control
- Induction to assisting in the clinical environment
- Introduction to Adult Patient Safeguarding
Oral and Systemic Health and Disease
- Systemic disease in relation to oral health and management.
- Recognition of common oral conditions.
- Clinical aspects of periodontology, cariology, non-carious tooth surface loss.
Patient assessment
- History taking of adult patients
- Risk assessment for oral diseases
- Treatment planning of adult patients with periodontal conditions, dental caries and non-carious tooth surface loss
- Introduction to tooth replacement
- Introduction to pain history and diagnosis
- Introduction to occlusion
Prevention of Oral Disease
- Planning prevention for adult patients.
Operative Techniques
- Haptics for caries management
- Developing periodontal clinical skills
- Introduction to prosthetic skills
- Caries removal and conservative management of the pulp/dentine complex
- Cavity preparation and placement of direct restorations
- Basic Life Support
Clinical Practice and Behaviours
- Effective communication in the clinical environment
- Demonstrating effective team working during direct patient care
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Practice | 3 | 3.5 | 10.5 |
| Clinical Practice | 6 | 3.5 | 21 |
| Clinical Practice | 30 | 3.5 | 105 |
| Lecture | 36 | 1 | 36 |
| Practical | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Practical | 46 | 3.5 | 161 |
| Seminar | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Independent online learning hours | 12 | ||
| Private study hours | 90 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 336.5 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 438.5 | ||
There is no compensation between elements of summative assessment; each element must be passed. In the event of failure of one or more elements, the module mark will be capped at 40 on successful resit of the failed element(s).
Coursework:
The Continuous Clinical Portfolio is an ongoing, continuous assessment process throughout the academic year. Students will receive verbal and written feedback on their gateway assessments, and clinical experience gradings through the Clinical Assessment and Feedback System (CAFS). Students will be required to reflect on their progress and the feedback they receive and to plan their ongoing development. Students will receive outcomes from the Clinical Progress Committee as to their continuing progress and any cause for concern to allow them to remediate before the end of the year.
Online formative learning activities throughout the year will help students to reinforce learning and prepare for them for the summative assessments.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio | Continuous Clinical Portfolio Sign-Off (Pass/Fail) | 0 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 0 | |
The Continuous Clinical Portfolio is a Pass for Progression element of the Clinical Skills and Practice 2 module. The continuous monitoring and Sign-Off for individual students is managed by the School of Dentistry Clinical Progress Committee. A student must be Signed-Off by the Clinical Progress Committee to allow progress into the next year of the programme. This ensures that students have met the General Dental Council Safe Practitioner Framework behaviours requirements as they progress through the programme. The Clinical Progress Committee holds meetings for all cohorts of students 4 times per year. This allows regular and timely monitoring capability and remediation as required. The Continuous Clinical Portfolio will comprise the following elements: - Satisfactory completion of clinical mandatory training requirements - Satisfactory completion of simulated clinical skills and communication skills gateway assessments - Continuous clinical experience grading including: < Satisfactory clinical attendance record < Consistently satisfactory continuous assessment of applied knowledge and technical performance < Consistently satisfactory continuous assessment of behaviours in relation to interpersonal skills - communication and teamworking, professionalism, and self-management < Achievement of minimum clinical experience requirements at the level of a Year 2 Dental Surgery student. - No outstanding issues reported by the School of Dentistry Professionalism Committee. - Absence of Health and Conduct Committee (Student Fitness to Practice) sanctions or limits to clinical practice (report presented to the Clinical Progress Committee from the Director of Student Education).
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 2.0 Hrs Mins | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 100 | |
In-person closed book, online time limited examination.
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