Course overview
This examination assesses core aspects and understanding required for competent patient care relevant for the current year level. It requires integration of core learning from the current year of the BDS.
Course learning outcomes
- comply with AHPRA, Uni and SA Dental policies by displaying appropriate professional and ethical behaviour through respecting colleagues and patients, maintaining Academic Integrity, maintain patient confidentiality and obtaining informed consent in all learning environments
- apply critical thinking, evidence-based approach, clinical reasoning to inform decisions at all levels of interaction with healthy adult patients by applying the hierarchy of evidence and basic statistical concepts when critically evaluating relevant literature.
- describe the distribution of oral health disease/illness/disability at a Population level in Australia and relate this to contributory factors and their importance
- critically reflect and evaluate their own performance, seeking feedback and implementing appropriate strategies for improvement and continuing professional development
- describe different approaches to respond to common occupational stressors and seeks assistance in developing effective management strategies for self and patients
- establish a safe working environment in laboratory and clinical settings and identify and rectify unsafe practices
- describe patient-centred care to support and enable pts to understand and co-manage their oral health needs
- begin to describe the limits of professional and individual clinical skills/scope of practice and recommends referral where appropriate
- work and communicate effectively and respectfully with peers, staff and members of the oral health care team in simulated and clinical setting, and adopt a leadership role when necessary
- identify the principles of communicating in a respectful and culturally safe manner, with peers, staff, members of the oral health care team and patients from varying cultural groups including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- use effective person-centred communication to competently manage the oral care of healthy adult patients through appropriate use of questions, active listening, explanations, empathy, and feedback
- obtain patient reason for visit, chief concern and medical history, relevant dental history and social history (using biomedical, biopsychosocial, and illness frameworks)
- perform extraoral, intraoral soft, periodontal and hard tissues, perform a simple occlusal analysis including the collection and interpretation of additional clinical information, appropriately recognise the range of normality and record normal findings and clinical signs of common oral diseases for selected healthy adult patients.
- select appropriate tests to identify specific risk factors leading to an imbalance in the oral ecosystem and use results to devise tailored preventive management plans in relation to common oral diseases in medically healthy adult patients
- interpret & evaluate gathered data, including selected other investigations to formulate diagnosis for selected healthy adult patients
- explain the principles of identification of risk factors in relation to the diagnosis, development & management of common oral diseases in selected healthy adult patients
- explain the principles of identification of risk factors in relation to the diagnosis, development & management of common oral diseases in selected healthy adult patients
- describe and implement appropriate occupational health and safety procedures required when working within a clinical and simulated clinical environment including infection control, ergonomics, manual dexterity.
- confirms correct patient, procedure; obtain informed consent, create/maintain accurate dental clinical records
- demonstrate effective practice management skills and time management and powers of observation
- apply knowledge of risks associated with dental radiographs to safely and accurately take bitewing radiographs in simulated settings; examine and critique bitewing radiographs and recognise the appearance of normal imaged structures and associated basic pathology (eg restorations, caries, calculus) in bitewing, periapical and panoramic radiographs
- perform simple preventive treatments, including remineralisation techniques eg professional or home fluorides, fissure sealants, oral hygiene instructions, dietary advice, diagnostic procedures in simulated and/or clinical situations
- in accordance with Minimal Intervention (MI) principles, explains the principles of tooth conservation
- apply integrated knowledge of structure and function of selected body systems, genetics, anatomy ,as a basis for analysis of patients' oral health.
- apply integrated knowledge of dental material science and digital technology to the management of patients
- recognise and together with tutor manage complications of oral procedures
- discuss the signs and symptoms of associated with emergency situations in the clinic an collapse of a patient, and aware of emergency procedures