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Child and Adolescent Oral Health 2 (DENT90076)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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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
Overview
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This subject is a continuation of Child and Adolescent Oral Health 1 (Semester 2 of 2nd year). It will be conducted as a pre-clinical and clinical subject and has 2 components: Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject. students should have achieved competencies in:
- assessing human growth and development from childhood, through adolescence and early adulthood;
- accurate history-taking, clinical oral examination and patient management of children and adolescents;
- intra-oral radiography procedures and local analgesia administration in the child patient;
- basic treatment planning for child and adolescent patients.
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 organizational skills and time management;
- develop skills in team work and develop skills of workplace safety;
- be able to identify and address their own learning needs.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Successful completion of all 2nd year DDS subjects:
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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DENT90067 | Child & Adolescent Oral Health 1 | Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DENT90071 | Preclinical Dental Practice 4 | Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DENT90072 | Dental Medicine and Surgery 2 | Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
DENT90073 | Clinical Dental Practice 3 | Semester 2 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville) |
18.75 |
DENT90074 | Dental Research Project 2 | Year Long (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
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
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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1 x written paper on Orthodontics and paediatric dentistry
| At the end of Block 2 | 30% |
Continuing clinical assessment of the treatment of patients receiving orthodontic and paediatric dentistry care through a clinical log book assessed by the clinical supervisor (criteria provided) at the end of each session and presentation of a journal article at a seminar | Throughout Blocks 1 and 2 | 20% |
1 x combined paediatric dentistry and orthodontics Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).
| End of Block 2 | 50% |
Hurdle requirement: 100% attendance at Seminars/Tutorials & Clinical Sessions | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Principal coordinator Siew-May Loo Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 54 hours (indicative) Teaching period 24 January 2022 to 29 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 4 February 2022 Census date 31 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 24 June 2022 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
54 contact hours (indicative), 16 non-contact hours (indicative)
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Recommended texts and other resources
Cameron AC and Widmer RP, 2008 Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry 3rd ed, Mosby
Hall RK 1994 Pediatric Oro-facial Medicine and Pathology Chapman and Hall Medical
Koch G, Poulsen S 2009 Pediatric Dentistry: A Clinical Approach 2nd ed, Wiley-Blackwell
McDonald RE, Avery DR and Dean JA 2011 Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent 9th ed Mosby
Profitt WR, Fields HW, Ackerman JL, Sinclair PM, Thomas PM and Tulloch JFC 2007 Contemporary Orthodontics 4th ed, Mosby
Scully CM and Welbury R 1994 Color Atlas of Oral diseases in Children and Adolescents Wolfe
Therapeutic guidelines – Oral and Dental. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited, Melbourne, 2007
Last updated: 31 January 2024