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Intro to Professional Dental Practice (DENT90060)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Melbourne Dental School
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: enquiries-STEM@unimelb.edu.au
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability | Semester 1 (Early-Start) |
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This subject has the following components: Current Issues in Health Care, Population Oral Health, Law and Ethics, Communication Skills and Behavioural Science. Student learning will include patient centred oral health care practice.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, the student will be able to:
- discuss the range of oral health care needs of individuals and groups within the community and the diversity of the methods needed to provide them;
- comprehend the range of patients' socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds, together with variations in community health;
- analyse the importance of inter-professional team relationships in the provision of oral health care and be able to relate to the "patient centred" health care model;
- comprehend the dynamics of the patient/health professional relationship and the implications of behaviour in the delivery of dental care;
- identify the common clinical activities undertaken by oral health care providers and the risks and hazards to the oral health care worker;
- comprehend the biological, behavioural and ethical principles during the delivery of clinical dental services;
- demonstrate skills required for communication, counselling and patient management;
- apply epidemiological principles to solve dental public health problems.
Generic skills
Students should be able to:
- access new knowledge from different sources, analyse and interpret it in a critical manner;
- develop skills in effective communication with teaching staff and peers;
- develop effective organisational skills and time management;
- develop skills in team work;
- identify and address their own learning needs;
- develop skills in professional communication.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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1 x written exam on Population Oral Health, Current Issues in Health Care and Communication Skills, Law and Ethics in Dentistry and Behavioural Science
| At the end of Teaching Block 2 | 50% |
1 x assignment on Current Issues in Health Care
| During the teaching period | 20% |
1 x assignment on Population Oral Health
| During the teaching period | 20% |
1 x on-line assignment in communication skills.
| During the teaching period | 10% |
Hurdle requirement: 75% attendance at Lectures; 100% attendance at Seminars/Tutorials, and Workshops | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Principal coordinator Rodrigo Marino Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 73 contact (indicative) Teaching period 27 January 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 7 February 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 (Early-Start) contact information
Melbourne Dental School
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: enquiries-STEM@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
73 contact hours (indicative), 80 non-contact hours (indicative)
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Recommended texts and other resources
Burt BA, Eklund SA (ed) 2005 Dentistry, Dental Practice and the Community, 6 th ed, Saunders, Elsevier
McIlwraith JB, Madden B Health Care and the Law, 5 th ed, Thompson Reuters
Mostofsky DI, Forgione AG, Giddon DB (eds) 2006 Behavioural Dentistry, Wiley-Blackwell
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Doctor of Dental Surgery
Last updated: 31 January 2024