• Offered for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Professor John Whitworth

• Owning School: Dental Sciences
• Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Aims

To equip students with the skills, applied knowledge and understanding to deliver high quality specialist level Endodontic clinical care to patients.

Two clinical training modules (MCD8102 and MCD8105) cover the second and third years of the MClinDent programme. Students will develop the skills listed through a mixture of clinical sessions, case-review sessions and simulated training (mannequin and cadaveric).

Outline Of Syllabus

The 900-hour MCD8102 clinical training module is delivered in continuity with MCD8105 and between them considers the following areas, through clinical experience (direct patient management, observations), personal reflection and case review sessions to develop:


- An understanding and a breadth and depth of knowledge of Endodontics.

- Acquire and become proficient in the skills required for specialist practice with an emphasis on practical skills, multidisciplinary treatment planning, disease prevention, and provision of specialist care in either primary or secondary care settings.

- Be proficient in a full range of technical and clinical skills in Endodontics to undertake treatment planning, disease prevention, and provision of specialist care in either primary or secondary care settings.

- Acquire and demonstrate attitudes necessary for the achievement and delivery of the highest standards of Endodontic care, in relation to the oral health needs of populations, the needs of patients under treatment and the personal development needs of the trainee.

- Develop the ability to collect relevant clinical information (biological, technical, psychological, social) from patients' history, examination and special tests and to integrate and analyse it to identify the nature of their problem, where necessary using differential and provisional lists, with further investigation and analysis to make a definitive diagnosis of the problem(s).

- Know about available treatment options in order to discuss with patients and make an appropriate choice (if necessary in conjunction with other specialists) and to formulate an overall integrated plan of management for each patient.

- Develop the ability to systematically plan the management of a clinical problem and the necessary practical and surgical skills.

- Develop the ability to communicate effectively and professionally with referring clinicians, in order to coordinate the efficient delivery of care.

- Develop sufficient understanding of research to critically assess classical or new research work and its implications for clinical care.

- Demonstrate ability and motivation to maintain the responsibilities related to continuing professional development and using a life-long learning philosophy.

- Have knowledge and practice of clinic governance issues.

- Demonstrate attitudes and understanding of ethical and societal issues and the place of their speciality in the overall healthcare spectrum.

- Demonstrate maintenance of the standards of practice in dentistry and Endodontics as determined by the GDC.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The teaching on this clinical training module will be delivered as clinical sessions and associated preparation, reflection, work-based assessments and case-based presentation and review.

This maps to IKOs 1-8 and ISOs 1-23.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment

Formative Assessments

Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

This clinical training module is non-credit bearing, however it is a compulsory part of the programme which must be passed. Students must satisfactorily complete the required hours and requirements of the portfolio assessment to pass the module. Students will be formatively assessed at every patient event with feedback and grades being discussed after the clinical event and grades recorded in iDentity that are aligned to grading descriptors held in the clinical handbook.

The Portfolio assessment in this programme is designed to be in line with NHS Speciality Training processes as published by COPDEND. Students will map their clinical experience, reflection, work based assessment, multi-source feedback to demonstrate where learning outcomes have been achieved. This mapping will be reviewed at the ARCP (Annual Review of Competency Progression) to determine satisfactory progression through the outcomes that cover both MCD8102 and MCD8105.

At the end of the second year students will not be expected to have achieved all the outcomes in MCD8102 but should be making sufficient progress towards achieving them all at the end of the third year in MCD8105. In order to pass the module students must successfully complete a minimum amount of clinical hours, meet the required standard of clinical training and achieve satisfactory demonstration of simulator-based skills as judged by the ARCP clinical specialty panel based on the portfolio evidence presented.

Students who fail the module will not be offered a resit opportunity and will be unable to continue their clinical training.

Further detail is provided in the programme regulations and handbook.

Reading Lists

• MCD8102's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• MCD8102's Timetable