Module CDEN361 provides students with teaching, learning support and strategies to enable the student to demonstrate systematic acquisition of the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours required to provide specialist Paediatric Dentistry to children with complex medical and dental needs.
It is a core module in the Paediatric Dentistry Pathway which underpins the academic and clinical training requirements for the Specialist Training Curriculum in Paediatric Dentistry/General Dental Council UK.
The students will have supervised clinical contact time with consultants and specialists in Paediatric Dentistry within Hospital Dental Services.
CDEN361 will be taught within the School of Dentistry and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, supervised clinical teaching will be delivered in the Paediatric Dentistry Departments of both.
The students will be gaining relevant skills in information gathering, informed consent, managing children with complex dental and medical needs (including those suffering from dental trauma and dental anomalies) and children with complex medical co-morbidities.
CDEN361 includes structured teaching, seminars, practical classes, chairside teaching, case based learning and project work. Students will be encouraged towards self-directed learning to enhance the module programme and will attend external courses provided by specialist society conferences in a variety of Paediatric Dentistry topics.
A variety of assessments will be used in module CDEN361 and mapped to the Paediatric Dentistry Specialist curriculum and include continuous work based assessments, use of a Personal Development Portfolio and logbook. A summative examination will be held at the end of the module consisting of a written examination and a structured clinical examination.
Students will record their learning, clinical placements, assessments and reflections using a secure on-line National Portfolio (Intercollegiate Surgical Competence Progression, ISCP). For students with a National Training Number (NTN), the ISCP portfolio will support assessment through the Annual Review of Competence Programme (ARCP). https://www.iscp.ac.uk/static/dental/PaedAppendix.pdf