Students will be provided with a patient history and clinical examination documentation 60 minutes prior to their exam time. They should use this time to form a problems list, risk assessment, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plan. At the end of the 60 minutes the student will enter a zoom room with 2 examiners (1 external examiners and 1internal examiner) for 15 minutes to present problems list, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plan. Students will be asked questions relating to the allocated case study. The case study provided to the student by the teaching team may have soft tissue pathology and/or hard tissue pathology and/or a medical condition which may or may not impede on the treatment you propose. Students are required to plan a 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. Each case presentation must include justification on your disease risk assessment, prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment plan.

Component 1 - Self-reflection

Self-reflection is an important practice for personal and professional development as an independent practitioner. You will be required to write daily self-reflective entries in your ePortfolio Site on Google Drive. The reflections should be based on your work-integrated learning experiences in ORAL13002.

• 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?

The completion of the personal reflective blog is a compulsory assessment, and each entry must be completed to a satisfactory standard. Reflections must be submitted by midnight each Sunday at the end of each week you are rostered at a work-integrated learning placement. This is mandatory for Term 2 of third year. All submissions must be submitted on time.

Component 2 - Recorded ePortfolio Presentation

You will be required to record a 5-10 minute presentation of your ePortfolio. This will be a presentation of your learning journey throughout the course and how you believe you have reached your learning goal of meeting the ADC Professional competencies of a newly qualified dental practitioner in the division of oral health therapy.  

All students must complete this assessment. The online quiz(zes) will be a four-part assessment. The times and dates will be confirmed on the News Forum and under the assessment tile on the unit Moodle site. Your 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 at each summative online quiz(zes) and must be completed within the allocated time frame
• Open attempts are submitted automatically. This means that if you have technical difficulties, it will save any questions you have already answered

There are a number of support and technology mechanisms of which you need to be aware.

• If you experience any technical difficulties accessing or during the in-class test, please contact TASAC (Moodle assistance option) on 1300 666 620.
• Notify the unit coordinator as soon as physically possible (same day) with details of the technical issues. If you are able, take a screenshot of any error message received and include that in your email to the unit coordinator.
• If you are unable to undertake the online quiz at the set time and date you will need to apply for an extension in Moodle (in the support area on the top of the page and supply supporting documentation as per normal extension requests.

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

The clinical experiences in ORAL13002 are to consolidate, apply and extend the theory learned in lectures and practical sessions during years 1, 2, and 3 of the course (CB29 - Bachelor of Oral Health). Specific hours are determined by each

placement site but generally, you are required to be on clinical placement from 8 am to 5 pm 4 days per week. The placement site may include

• CQUniversity Oral Health Clinic
• CQU Dental Outreach Program
• SACCR at CQUniversity Health Clinic
• Residential Care Facilities
• Oral Health Education at childcare centres, schools, community health centres and community groups
• Private Hospitals
• Private Dental Clinics
• Specialist Dental Clinics
• Public Health Districts

A list of contacts and placement site addresses is at the bottom of the Google Drive student roster (link on unit Moodle page).

There are a number of components in the Professional Practice Placement. Each component must be passed in order to pass the assessment.

Component 1 Clinical Performance:

A criterion-referenced analytical assessment rubric for evaluation of student performance of procedures is provided in the Online Real-time Assessment System (ORAS). ORAS records all work-integrated learning experiences, including a number of assessed student-client interactions and performance of procedures. Placement supervisors are required to complete an entry into ORAS for each student-client interaction assessed. Each student-client interaction is graded on a rubric, which will reflect a grade of Not Yet Competent (0), Approaching Competent (1), Competent (2), and Highly Competent (3) for each procedure part (see example below). An average grade is given at the end of each student-client interaction assessment for all procedures completed.

In each student-client interaction assessment, there are also Critical Competencies. A Not Yet Competent (NYC) in one or more of the Critical Competencies results in a mark of 0 overall for that student-client interaction.

The data is collated over the term to monitor performance and as a “log” of the procedures and student-client assessments completed by the student. The unit teaching team will assess the data aggregated in ORAS over the period of the term to form a longitudinal comprehensive picture of the achievement and development of competence by the student.

In order to achieve a grade of a pass in this component, you are required to:

• Achieve a minimum score of Competent (2) in no less than 90% of the total number of student-client interaction assessments.
• Achieve an average minimum score of Competent (2) in each procedural category. Procedure categories are examinations, hygiene, and restorative procedures.

Re-attempt:

Re-attempt is where you are given a second opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of one or more of the unit’s learning outcomes before you can progress to new learning or participate in subsequent learning activities. If you achieve a minimum score of Competent (2) in 87-89% of all student-client interactions, you will be offered a reattempt:

• Five additional student-client interactions will be offered on a mutually agreeable day.
• This task is to be completed no later than one week before the release of grades.
• You must achieve an average minimum score of Competent (2) in ALL five student-client interactions.
• These additional sessions will be offered at the CQUniversity Oral Health Clinic based in Rockhampton. It is your
• responsibility to arrange transport and accommodation if needed to attend these additional sessions.
• Note that only one opportunity to do a re-attempt will be given.
• If you do not pass the re-attempt, you will be unable to pass ORAL13002.

If you achieve a minimum score of Competent (2) in 90% of all student-client interactions, however, you do not achieve an average minimum score of Competent (2) in one procedural category, you will be offered a re-attempt as per the conditions above. The five additional student-client interactions will be offered in the procedural category you did not achieve.

If you achieve a minimum score of Competent (2) in 90% of all student-client interactions, however, you do not achieve an average minimum score of Competent (2) in more than one procedural category, you will NOT be offered a reattempt.

Component 2 Attendance:

Attendance at clinical placements is compulsory. You are required to attend a minimum of 95% of rostered clinical placement days. This allows you approximately 2-3 days of absence without penalty. Absences are required to be supported with a medical certificate or negotiated with the Unit Coordinator/s in advance. Absences are to be made up at operational convenience. A pass for satisfactory attendance is defined as maintaining and fulfilling the 95% clinical placement attendance for the days rostered during the term. Not meeting attendance requirements may result in a placement outstanding until the next available unit offering, which may delay your progress through the course and graduation.

Who to contact if you are sick: The unit coordinators (via email) and Libby Warlow (via phone) and the contact for the placement site on the day. The placement site will provide you with the name and details of the contact person.