DS5101 - Clinical Practice 1 (Comprehensive Oral Care)

Credit points:	12
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Subject chain:	DS5101 DS5102
Administered by:	School of Medicine & Dentistry

This subject is only available to those students enrolled in the Bachelor of Dental Surgery

Students participate in a clinical placement program that enables them to provide comprehensive oral care to patients in a range of clinical settings. Each clinical site will have students providing dental care under supervision. The development of clinical skills continues across the year to achieve competencies in all the key areas of dentistry.

Learning Outcomes

• Perform an expanding range of dental procedures under supervision;
• Evaluate the oral health care needs of patients;
• Diagnose, plan and appropriately manage the care of patients with special needs;
• Identify the need for specialist dental care and refer appropriately when required;
• Prepare and restore teeth using a range of materials for both direct and indirect restorations.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies.

Prerequisites:

DS4101 AND DS4102

Availabilities
As this subject is part of a subject chain, a final standard grade (e.g. P, C) will only be recorded for each subject after successful completion of all parts of the subject chain.
Cairns, Placement/work experience, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Non-standard start/end 07-Jan-2013 to 21-Jun-2013
Coordinator:	Dr Felicity Croker
Contact hours:	600 hours clinical placement
Assessment:	integrated assessment across subject chain (%).
Cairns, Placement/work experience, Study Period 2
Census Date 29-Aug-2013
Non-standard start/end 10-Jun-2013 to 22-Nov-2013
Coordinator:	Dr Felicity Croker
Contact hours:	600 hours clinical placement
Assessment:	integrated assessment across subject chain (%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.