ORAL13002 - Oral Health Clinical Placement 2

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this capstone unit you will integrate your knowledge, skills and professional experience in a range of environments in preparation for employment as an oral health therapist. In addition to treating children and adolescents, this course is approved by the National Board to train and educate you to treat adults of all ages. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate safety and competence in total patient care over a range of preventive and operative clinical procedures with patients including medically compromised patients, people with special needs and the elderly. You will also consolidate your clinical judgment skills in identifying patients who require referral for complex care outside your scope of practice. You will improve your clinical reasoning skills in a supportive environment aimed to increase your confidence through reflective and self-directed learning. On successful completion of this unit you will be able to communicate information regarding oral health in oral and written forms utilising appropriate interpersonal and team communication skills, professional attitudes and ethical behaviours.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 18
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 3
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.375
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisite: ORAL13001 Oral Health Clinical Placement 1 and HLTH13031 Population Health Epidemiology or ALLH13011 Rural and Remote Practice for Health Professionals or with approval from the Head of Course for Oral Health.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2023

Term 2 - 2023 Profile
Rockhampton

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 18-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 37.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 450 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Oral Examination 40%
2. Reflective Practice Assignment 0%
3. In-class Test(s) 60%
4. Professional Practice Placement 0%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 22.22% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student Unit Teaching Evaluation.
Feedback
Additional online case study quizzes would be great.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the development of online case studies continue in 2022.
Action Taken
Case studies quizzes were made available on the unit Moodle page.
Source: Student Unit Teaching Evaluation and teaching team discussions.
Feedback
Guest lecturers were fantastic, such a great opportunity to hear from them on various topics.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the scheduling of guest lecturers, who are specialists in their field, continue.
Action Taken
Guest lectures were scheduled and delivered live in 2022.
Source: Teaching team
Feedback
Students were not guaranteed adequate clinical time due to COVID-19 restrictions to collate a completed clinical case study for their assessment task.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the assessment tasks' be redesigned to ensure suspension or cancellation of work-integrated learning does not delay the assessment tasks completion.
Action Taken
The assessment task descriptions were amended to ensure a disruption to work-integrated learning placements did not delay assessment task completion.
Source: Student Unit Teaching Evaluation
Feedback
"More feedback around quizzes would be beneficial"
Recommendation
It is recommended to run feedback sessions online after the closing of the in-class tests throughout the term.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Teaching team and students
Feedback
The lecture and tutorial schedule (2 nights a week) was a significant load with the 4 full days on clinical placement. Some weeks there was a lecture 2 nights per week leaving little time for discussion of clinical cases.
Recommendation
It is recommended the lecture tutorial schedule be reviewed to schedule one lecture per week and a dedicated case-based yarning circle time each week.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Integrate and apply knowledge, skills and clinical judgement of assessment, preventive and operative procedures with child, adolescent and adult patients in a range of environments
  2. Provide safe and competent oral health clinical care for patients including identifying patients who require referral pathways for complex care outside your scope of practice
  3. Advocate for, and promote, oral health to individuals and groups across diverse community settings in a variety of formats
  4. Recognise and act upon the legal, ethical and safeguarding issues involving dental practitioners and patients as defined by the relevant professional regulatory bodies in Australia and overseas.

All unit profiles in the Bachelor of Oral Health are made available to the Australian Dental Council and the Dental Board of Australia for on-going accreditation purposes.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Oral Examination • •
2 - Reflective Practice Assignment • •
3 - In-class Test(s) • •
4 - Professional Practice Placement • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Communication • • • •
2 - Problem Solving • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • •
5 - Team Work • • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence • • • •
8 - Ethical practice • • • •
9 - Social Innovation • • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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