(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
1. Apply the knowledge, skills, and behaviours required for safe and reflective practice at the level of safe practitioner as defined by the General Dental Council in the scope of a dental therapist, providing comprehensive care to a diverse range of patients.
2. Demonstrate the professional behaviours of self-management, cultural competence, and social accountability that apply to dentistry.
3. Demonstrate the professional values and behaviours, ethical concepts, lifelong learning, and effective self-management strategies, expected of a safe practitioner dental therapist.
4. Discuss the concept of insight and how this applies to effective learning and clinical practice.
5. Evaluate the role and accountability of a dental professional in society, recognising dentistry’s positive contributions to healthcare.
6. Design, complete and disseminate a project in relation to dentistry.
Competence Standards
1.Demonstrate physical and manual clinical skills and those of safe practice to undertake the range of clinical requirements in real-time situations to meet the outcomes of the General Dental Council Safe Practitioner Framework.
2.Demonstrate effective two-way communication in a range of environments across diverse, cultural and social groups and those with protected characteristics
3.Demonstrate effective communication which is clinically accurate and contemporaneous (occurring at the time of the clinical event).
4.Demonstrate effective and consistent planning; management of time, organisation, prioritisation across the clinical environment, and demonstrate flexibility to apply to unexpected scenarios in relation to clinical management.
5.Demonstrate self-management, adaptability and response to different situations using insight, reflection and feedback recognising own capabilities and limitations in order to seek appropriate and timely support as expected by the General Dental Council Safe Practitioner Framework.
6.Demonstrate effective teamwork by using inter-personal skills and emotional awareness to enable effective communication with all patients and colleagues which is underpinned by behaving in a caring, compassionate, empathetic and respectful way as expected by the General Dental Council Safe Practitioner Framework.
7.Demonstrate knowledge, skills and behaviours for safe and effective practice as expected by the General Dental Council Safe Practitioner Framework.
8.Demonstrate standards of medical fitness to train as defined by HEOPS.
Skills Learning Outcomes
- Identify opportunities to create value within a dental setting and effectively communicate your ideas to a variety of audiences
> WR1 - Communication
> ES1 - spotting opportunities
- Demonstrate a flexible and reflective approach to clinical decision making
> WR16 - decision-making
> ES5 - self-awareness, adaptability and resilience
- Engage a variety of audiences using communication and presentation skills
> AS3 - presentation skills
Technical:
1. Demonstrate appropriate infection prevention and control measures including PPE in the clinical skills environment and clinical settings.
2. Demonstrate safe provision of dental hygiene procedures for adult and child patients in the clinical environment.
3. Demonstrate safe provision of dental therapy procedures for adult and child patients in the clinical environment.
4. Demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, carers, and members of the dental team in the clinical setting
5. Demonstrate professional clinical behaviours in clinical skills and real patient clinical settings.
Approach to Assessment in Year 3
In Year 3 each module takes a different assessment approach which is authentic and appropriate to the content and learning expected.
Clinical Skills and Practice 3: In this module students develop their knowledge skills and behaviours to allow them to develop as safe dental practitioners.
An unseen clinical case oral examination will be used to assess the synthesis of clinical information, clinical reasoning and treatment planning skills.
Unseen online time-limited exam will be used to assess the application and synthesis of knowledge.
A Continuous Clinical Portfolio (CCP) is a Pass for Progression element of the module which provides a framework for the monitoring of clinical progress across clinical mandatory requirements, clinical competency tests, presentation of real patient cases and the continuous grading of clinical experience and behaviours.
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 qualification. This ensures that students have met the General Dental Council Safe Practitioner Framework behaviours requirements at the point of qualification.
Enquire 3: In this module students will gain formative experience in presenting their Capstone project proposal and writing a project abstract. The summative assessment components of this module will be a written submission focusing on the rational and methodology of the chosen Capstone project and a presentation of the completed project. The presentation will be in a pre-recorded format with students being asked to explore the impact and implications of their work within the wider community and healthcare systems.
Personal and Professional Development 3: This module follows the students on their learning journey to professional registration and is continuously assessed by the completion of a Professional Development Portfolio (PDP). The PDP will evidence the students’ ability to complete the thematic reflections and autonomous action planning required for transition to the world of work and registration as a dental professional. PDP Sign-Off at the end of the year is dependent on having completed all required components. The knowledge component of this module is assessed by an unseen online time-limited exam.
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