| Unit name | Basic Oral Medicine |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ORDSM0036 |
| Credit points | 40 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Spiteri Staines |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
| School/department | Bristol Dental School |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
Why is this unit important?
This unit allows you to develop your core Oral Medicine knowledge to build a foundational basis for clinical practice.
How does this unit fit into your programme of study?
You will develop core knowledge, behaviours and clinical skills required for your first steps in Oral Medicine clinical practice. You will develop basic competencies in relation to the diagnosis and management of patients with common, non-complex clinical presentations.
You will incrementally transition towards management of patients with higher levels of complexity, in preparation for the Intermediate and Advanced Oral Medicine units.
An overview of content
This unit aims to introduce the fundamentals of Oral Medicine clinical practice initially by building your knowledge within the discipline. It will develop your knowledge and understanding of the discipline of Oral Medicine. There will be a focus on the recognition, investigation, management and diagnosis of Oral & Maxillofacial diseases to provide the basis for future spiral learning and competency acquisition in terms of knowledge, behaviours and competencies that underpin clinical practice within the discipline.
How will students, personally, be different as a result of the unit?
You will acquire transferable knowledge, experience and professional attributes that can be utilised in your dental workplace. You will consequently be prepared to engage and clerk patients within the Oral Medicine clinic on a 1:1 basis in a safe, supervised setting.
Learning Outcomes:
A range of teaching are used in the unit including:
1. Work based experiential learning:
Clinical chair-side teaching - consultant clinics in Clinical Oral Medicine encompassing reflection and personalised feedback
2. Peer based learning:
Will occur at clinical meetings at the chair-side.
3. Small group teaching:
You can participate in the detailed discussion of difficult clinical problems and available current best practice, with critical appraisal of available literature.
4. Observational work shadowing
5. Feedback and personalised support through tutor/mentor meetings on a regular basis
6. Self-directed learning:
You would be expected to complete self-directed learning with 1:1 support and guidance from lecturers. We would expect 1-2 hours pre-reading and 1-2 hours follow up per lecture/topic teaching. Accessing NICE, SIGN, GMC, and GDC published guidance and relevant literature.
You will be supervised at all times in clinical settings.
Tasks which help you learn and prepare you for summative tasks (formative):
The learning outcomes are assessed in integrated fashion across the summative and formative assessments.
Tasks which count towards your unit mark (summative):
When assessment does not go to plan:
If you do not pass the unit, you will normally be given the opportunity to take a reassessment as per the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes. Decisions on the award of reassessment will normally be taken after all taught units of the year have been completed. Reassessment will normally be in a similar format to the original assessment that has been failed.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. ORDSM0036).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
