(Award available for year: Bachelor of Dental Surgery)
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 surgeon, providing comprehensive care to a diverse range of patients.
2. Demonstrate the professional values, behaviours, insight, ethical concepts, lifelong learning, and effective self-management strategies, expected of a safe practitioner dental surgeon.
Skills Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate leadership skills to achieve a common goal by using effective communication with colleagues and the public
> SK7 - effective communication
> WR6 - leadership
- Appraise ethical issues using an integrated problem-solving approach
> SK6 - Integrated problem solving
> AS6 - ethics
Technical:
1. Demonstrate appropriate infection prevention and control measures including PPE in the clinical skills environment and clinical settings.
2. Demonstrate safe, holistic management of adult and child patients in the clinical environment with supervision.
3. Demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, carers and members of the dental and wider healthcare team in the clinical setting
4. Demonstrate professional clinical behaviours in clinical skills and real patient clinical settings.
Approach to Assessment
In Year 5 each module takes a different assessment approach which is authentic and appropriate to the content and learning expected.
Year 5 assessments will be scheduled to allow for one resit attempt in both the CSP5 and PPD5 modules before the end of May. This is required to allow progression to the next stage of professional development: Dental Foundation Training.
Clinical Skills and Practice 5: In this module students develop their knowledge skills and behaviours to allow them to develop as safe dental practitioners. Students will present real patient cases that they have managed individually in the clinical environment to assess the holistic management of patient care. A series of unseen clinical case vivas will be used to assess the synthesis of clinical information and clinical reasoning and treatment planning skills.
Unseen online time-limited exams will be used to assess the application and synthesis of knowledge. Exams will be in two parts to phase examination through the final year, allowing for feedback and remediation.
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 requirement, simulated skills gateway tests 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.
Personal and Professional Development 5: 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) with final Sign-Off at the end of the year dependant 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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