Unit information: Year 5 BDS in 2021/22

Unit name	Year 5 BDS
Unit code	ORDSM0037
Credit points	0
Level of study	M/7
Teaching block(s)	Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52)
Unit director	Mr. Tony Jones
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	Successful progression from Year 4 BDS21
Co-requisites	None
School/department	Bristol Dental School
Faculty	Faculty of Health Sciences

Description including Unit Aims

Description:

Year 5 BDS provides the concluding education and training within a curriculum based on the student dentist as a Person and Citizen, a Scientist and Scholar, a Practitioner, and a Professional and Agent of Change. This unit takes an integrated approach to completion of learning outcomes outlined within Preparing for Practice, these being tested through formative and summative assessment, including a global three-part BDS Finals examination.

The unit is focused very much on preparation for clinical practice through the clinical spine of the curriculum including Student Dentist as Practitioner and Student Dentist as Professional and Agent of Change helical themes, and for successful selection for a Dental Foundation Training (DFT) place. Further reference to helical themes of Person and Citizen will be through DFT preparation (employability – Bristol Futures; and wellbeing). The unit encompasses all activity within Year 5 of the BDS programme, this being subdivided into six subjects:

• Oral Diagnosis and acute dental care and specialist oral and dental clinics (including for example consultant clinics such as Oral Medicine, Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS), Special care, and Orthodontics)
• Restorative Dentistry
• Oral Surgery
• Paediatric Dentistry
• Community-Based Dental Learning
• The Dentist in Society

The general aims of the unit are for Year 5 dental students to:

• Demonstrate attainment of all GDC learning outcomes as outlined within ‘Preparing for Practice’ (GDC 2017).
• Demonstrate understanding of Standards for the Dental Team (GDC 2013).
• Complete a transferable portfolio of activity and achievement to aid future employment.
• Engage with offered learning opportunities to maximise potential to be recruited for Dental Foundation Training.
• Review attainments of the Bristol Skills Framework within a personal development plan.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Year 5 continues the delivery of the GDC Preparing for Practice intended
ILOs (ILOs, 2015) which commenced in Year 1.

A. Knowledge and Understanding

1. Practise safely and effectively, making the high quality long-term care of patients the first concern
2. Recognise the role and responsibility of being a registrant and demonstrate professionalism through their education, training and practice in accordance with GDC guidance
3. Recognise the importance of lifelong learning and apply it to practice
4. CLINICAL - Individual patient care: GDC LOs 1.1.5, 1.1.10-11
5. Patient Management: GDC LO 1.7.9
6. Health promotion and disease prevention: GDC LO 1.10.1
7. Hard and soft tissue disease: GDC LOs 1.12.1, 1.12.3
8. Restoration and replacement of teeth: GDC LO 1.14.7
9. Population-based health and care: GDC LOs 2.1-2, 2.5
10. COMMUNICATION - Patients, their representatives and the public: GDC LO 3.2
11. Team and the wider healthcare environment: GDC LO 4.2
12. PROFESSIONALISM - Ethical and legal: GDC LO 7.4
13. Teamwork: GDC LO 8.3
14. MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP - Managing and working with others: GDC LO 11.6
15. Managing the clinical and working environment: GDC LOs 12.4, 12.6

B. Intellectual skills and attributes

1. Describe the principles of good research, how to access research and interpret it for use as part of an evidence-based approach to practice
2. Apply an evidence-based approach to learning, practice, clinical judgment and decision making and utilise critical thinking and problem-solving skills
3. Accurately assess their own capabilities and limitations, demonstrating reflective practice, in the interest of high-quality patient care and act within these boundaries
4. CLINICAL - Individual patient care: GDC LOs 1.1.1-2, 1.1.12

C. Other skills and attributes (practical/professional/transferable)

1. Demonstrate effective clinical decision making
2. CLINICAL - Individual patient care: GDC LOs 1.1.3-4, 1.1.6-9, 1.1.13
3. Comprehensive patient assessment: GDC LOs 1.2.1-7
4. Diagnosis: GDC LOs 1.4.1-2
5. Treatment planning: GDC LOs 1.5.1-6
6. Patient management: GDC LOs 1.7.1-11
7. Patient and public safety: GDC LOs 1.8.1-8
8. Treatment of acute oral conditions: GDC LOs 1.9.1-4
9. Health promotion and disease prevention: GDC LOs 1.10.2-7
10. Management and treatment of periodontal disease: GDC LOs 1.11.1-6
11. Hard and soft tissue disease: GDC LOs 1.12.2, 1.12.4-8
12. Management of the developing and developed dentition: GDC LOs 1.13.1-7
13. Restoration and replacement of teeth: GDC LOs 1.14.1-6, 1.14.8-12
14. Population-based health and care: GDC LOs 2.3-4
15. COMMUNICATION - Patients, their representatives and the public: GDC LOs 3.1, 3.3-4
16. Team and the wider healthcare environment: GDC LOs 4.1, 4.3-4
17. Generic communication skills: GDC LOs 5.1-5
18. PROFESSIONALISM - Patients and the public: GDC LOs 6.2-5
19. Ethical and legal: GDC LOs 7.1-3, 7.5
20. Teamwork: GDC LOs 8.1-2
21. Development of self and others: GDC LOs 9.1-7
22. MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP - Managing self: GDC LOs 10.1-8
23. Managing and working with others: GDC LOs 11.1-5, 11.7-9
24. Managing the clinical and working environment: GDC LOs 12.1-3, 12.5

Teaching Information

Much of the learning in Year 5 will be experiential, with focus on a significant proportion of the week treating patients in the clinic, with supported supervision by small group tutorial teaching. The teaching methods used are:

1. Clinical supervision and teaching
2. Lectures, tutorials and symposia. Teaching will use a blended learning approach delivered through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous activities.
3. Flipped classroom
4. Private study time, supported by library and electronic learning
5. Practical teaching: laboratory, anatomy, clinical skills
6. Access to dentists, scientists, researchers, allied health professionals and community health teams

Students will be expected to engage with all learning.

Assessment Information

The BDS21 curriculum has adopted an assessment approach emphasising key engagement milestones, including satisfactory engagement with formative assessments. Demonstration of satisfactory engagement with all milestones (defined within the BDS assessment handbook) will be required before students progress to graduation. Student engagement will be monitored at termly Progress Committee meetings and outcomes will be approved at the Year 5 Faculty Exam Board.

Consequences of non-engagement are that a student will not be permitted to progress to graduation. In accordance with University regulations, students may have two attempts at summative assessments in Year 5. Dependent on extenuating circumstances, a student may be permitted a second attempt at Year 5 or otherwise will be required to withdraw from the programme.

Summative assessment - BDS Finals
Each Part of BDS Finals will be equally weighted. Students must pass each Part to pass BDS Finals overall.

Part 1
Integrated Knowledge-based assessment (KBA) papers covering ILOs across all areas of the curriculum and comprising:

• 2 x two-hour e-Assessments
• 2 x three-hour MSA papers

Students will be required to attain an aggregate pass over the four KBA papers.

Part 2
Seen case presentations of treated patients:

• Adult Restorative case
• Child case

Students will be required to achieve an aggregate pass across the two case presentations.

Part 3
Adult and Child unseen clinical cases, comprising 6 unseen cases across three components:

• 2 x Adult Restorative Dentistry cases
• 2 x Adult Oral Surgery/Medicine/Radiology/Pathology, Oral &Maxillofacial Surgery &Special Care Dentistry cases
• 2 x Child Dental Health (Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontic) cases

Students will be required to achieve an aggregate pass over the three components of the Part 3 assessment.

Resit opportunities
Details of resits are provided in the BDS Assessment handbook.

Merit and Distinction
Merits and Distinctions will be awarded for the degree as a whole.

Progression to graduation
To successfully complete Year 5 and progress to graduation students must pass Year 5 assessments at first or second (resit) attempt as determined by the Board of Examiners. The final mark for each part of BDS Finals will be recorded on the University transcript.

Resources

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. ORDSM0037).

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 Faculty 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. If you have self-certificated your absence from an assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.