• Offered for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Professor Giles McCracken

• 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

The aim of this clinical training module is to equip students with the skills, applied knowledge and understanding to deliver high quality specialist level Prosthodontic clinical care to patients.

Two clinical training modules (MCD8104 and MCD8107) 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 MCD8104 clinical training module is delivered in continuity with MCD8107 and between them considers the following areas, through clinical experience (direct patient management, observations), personal reflection and case review sessions to develop:

• Knowledge of specialist level Prosthodontics.

• Skills required for specialist practice in Prosthodontics with an emphasis on practical skills, treatment planning, disease prevention, and provision of specialist care in either primary or secondary care settings.

• Technical and clinical skills in Prosthodontics to undertake treatment planning, disease prevention, and provision of specialist care in either primary or secondary care settings.

• Attitudes necessary for the achievement and delivery specialist Prosthodontics care, in relation to the oral health needs of populations, the needs of patients under treatment and to his or her own personal development.

• Skills 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).

• Knowledge of available and emerging 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.

• Skills to systematically plan the management of a clinical problem and those necessary to deliver the management.

• Skills to communicate effectively and professionally with referring clinicians, in order to coordinate the efficient delivery of care.

• Knowledge and understanding of Prosthodontic research to critically assess classical or new research work.

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

• Knowledge, understanding and skills to practice the management of clinic governance issues.

• Attitudes and understanding of ethical and societal issues and the place of their speciality in the overall healthcare spectrum.

• Skills maintaining the standards of practice in dentistry and Prosthodontics 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. 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 to determine satisfactory progression through the outcomes that cover both MCD8104 and MCD8107.

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 MCD8104 and MCD8107.

At the end of the second year students will not be expected to have achieved all the outcomes in MCD8104 but should be making sufficient progress towards achieving them all at the end of the third year in MCD8107. 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

• MCD8104's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• MCD8104's Timetable