Students will be required to complete an online Open University Personal Blog of daily or weekly self reflections. The personal blog will cover all twelve (12) weeks of the term.

The assessment criteria for the Reflective Journal (Open University Personal Blog) will be consistent with Gibbs' 6 stages of the reflective cycle.  An assessment rubric by Jones (and modified by Plath, Short and and Smart) is available on Moodle.

• Clarity,
• Relevance,
• Analysis,
• Self-criticism, and
• Strategies for improvement

The Reflective Journal must be completed for each clinical placement day and uploaded on the OU Blog on Moodle at least once per week. It must include your reflection on the feedback from the clinical supervisor from a procedure or placement should you fail, performed poorly or in which your performance could be improved.

• Include a brief summary of procedures OR a brief summary of placement
• Which procedures were performed well? OR Expectation of learning on the placement.
• What procedures could be improved? OR What did you learn today on placement?
• Strategies for improvement OR Strategies to enhance learning on placement.
• What did I learn today?

Clinical Supervisors are required to complete a entry into the online real-time assessment system (ORAS) for each patient interaction assessed. The supervisors have an obligation to provide feedback to the student. Attendance is at work integrated learning experiences is compulsory - students need to be present at every on- and off-campus clinical, community or educational placement. If you are absent, you must obtain a Medical Certificate and submit this to the Unit Coordinator. Moreover, you need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator prior to any planned absence from any on- or off-campus clinical, community or educational placement. Furthermore, all absences must be made up at operational convenience before the end of the term.

Online Real-time Assessment System (ORAS): The clinical and off campus procedure/s assessment criteria/s are outlined in the Online Real-time Assessment System (ORAS). A Pass/Fail result will be determined from information collated on the students ORAS results summary sheet.

Attendance: The assessment criteria also takes into account all time (hours or days) lost during the term - this includes sick leave with a medical certificate, leave negotiated with the Unit Coordinator in advance and leave with no supporting evidence. Furthermore, all absences must be made up at operational convenience before the end of the term. A Pass for satisfactory attendance is defined as maintaining as fulfilling the 100% attendance record.

You will be required to present a 15 minutes oral presentation case study (variation of +/-1 minute) at a time during the review/exam weeks allocated by the unit co-ordinator. . At completion of your oral presentation, the examiners will question you on a selection of clinical content relevant overall to oral health therapy practice, but not limited to the case you've presented. The panel will consist of one internal CQUniversity academic and two external examiners. All presentations will be recorded via ZOOM. The Chair, will admit you into the ZOOM meeting when the panel is ready for your presentation. We could be running late – please be patient.

With the support of a PowerPoint presentation, you will be required to present a case presentation for either a child, adolescent or adult patient who has presented with soft tissue pathology (periodontitis) and/or hard tissue pathology (dental caries) and/or a medical condition which may or may not impede on the treatment you can provide. You are required to treatment plan and justify the appropriate treatment modalities. Your treatment plan must include the determinants of oral health for your patient, i.e. consideration of the social and cognitive abilities of the patient, in particular, you need to relate this to the way your in-clinic and at-home treatment and preventive strategies are planned and managed. This must be a patient whom you have provided dental treatment during your ORAL13002 clinical placement. Each case presentation must include justification on your disease risk assessment, prognosis, diagnosis and treatment plan. The patient case study must be de-identified and include clinical documentation such as clinical photos, radiographs, and further investigation results, if appropriate. Failure to comply with de identifying the patient is in breach of patient privacy and will result in a fail grade for this assessment. You must also have a slide at the beginning of the presentation which states a declaration that you have accessed the dental records in keeping with CQUniversity and the clinical placement sites clinic protocols.

The learning objectives of this assessment are:

• Critically appraise published scientific literature and apply the relevant knowledge to oral health practice
• Apply entry level proficiencies in all scopes of oral health therapy practice with emphasis on prevention skills in performing an extensive range of treatment and preventive procedures within the scope of the oral health practitioner.
• Assess and implement critical preventive strategies for high need communities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities be able to demonstrate entry level skill in working cooperatively with dental and allied health care professionals to meet the holistic needs of the patient
• Apply advanced educational, preventative and therapeutic oral health care
• Consistently demonstrate clinical proficiency in all areas of oral health practice.
• Demonstrate professional behaviour and attitudes at a level ready to be registered as a health professional in all learning environments including the patient and simulation clinics.

Referencing: References will be both in-text and in a reference list at the end of the PowerPoint presentation.  https://www.cqu.edu.au/student-life/services-and-facilities/referencing/cquniversity-referencing-guides

Questions and Comments: At the end of your presentation, you will be asked a short series of clinical questions by the panel of examiners. They will also comment on what you have said and how you have presented the case presentation.

Assistance: For assistance with this task, please look at the information available on the Academic Learning Centre’s website. http://www.cqu.edu.au/about-us/service-and-facilities/academic-learning-centre

The assessment criteria for your case presentation is included on the marking sheet. The assessment criteria for the case presentation will be the similar to that utilised in Term 1 in ORAL13001 Oral Health Clinical Placement 1.

This assessment will be marked on the following criteria headings:

• Patient history analysis
• Problem list/diagnosis
• Risk assessment
• Clinical reasoning
• Critical thinking
• Organisation
• Self-Reflection and Relevance
• Communication
• Visual Presentation
• Timing 
• Referencing 

• The end of term online assessment time and date will be confirmed on the News Forum on the unit Moodle site.
• Your online assessment is to be your own individual work and not a result of collaboration with other students. Any identified cases of potential collusion will result in a breach of academic integrity case being raised.
• You are allowed one attempt only. The online assessment must be completed within the allocated timeframe.
• Open attempts are submitted automatically. This means that if you have technical difficulties, it will save any questions you have already answered.

Critical thinking and the integration of knowledge, skills and experience in oral health clinical practice. The assessment will consist of multiple-choice, short answer questions that require a paragraph or short answers to a list of questions relating to a topic and/or case studies.