This is a 60 credit module provide students with teaching, learning support and strategies to enable systematic acquisition of the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours required at the level of a specialist in Paediatric Dentistry in the provision of multidisciplinary oral healthcare for children with complex needs.
The students will have supervised clinical contact time with consultants and specialists within Hospital Dental Services.
Placements will be arranged with other medical and dental consultant and specialist teams and multidisciplinary team meeting and clinics to facilitate deeper inter-professional learning.
CDEN362 will be taught within the School of Dentistry and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and supervised clinical teaching will be delivered in the Paediatric Dentistry Departments of both. There will be attendance to joint clinics with other specialities in addition to attending orthodontics, oral surgery and oral medicine clinics.
This module will involve assessing children on new patient clinics, planning treatment and providing a range of clinical procedures for a wide range of children with complex dental and /or medical needs.
The students will gather information on a multidisciplinary basis considering health and social care, gaining consent, performing risk assessments and undertaking supervised clinical practice.
The Module 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 which are 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