| Unit name | Advanced Oral Medicine |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ORDSM0071 |
| Credit points | 30 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Professor. Spiteri Staines |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
| School/department | Bristol Dental School |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
Why is this unit important?
This is the final unit within the MSc within which you should be able to maximally clinically apply your prior learning to more clinically complex clinical presentations. You will develop independent clinical thinking strategies that you can use as a framework to build upon, in your future career through self-directed learning and further training.
How does this unit fit into your programme of study?
This unit allows you to clinically apply knowledge, behaviours and competencies, acquired in the Basic and Intermediate Oral Medicine units to the diagnosis and management of complex Oral Medicine clinical presentations. You will also be able to develop strategies to avoid, identify and manage more significant complications consequent to clinical decisions or complications of treatment prescribed within the field of Oral Medicine.
An overview of the content:
This unit aims to build on the knowledge, behaviours and competencies that you acquired in the Basic and Intermediate Oral Medicine units.
It will reinforce your ability to recognise and manage complex or challenging clinical presentations secondary to both disease or patient related factors within Oral Medicine. You will develop awareness and strategies to manage adverse clinical outcomes and complications in oral medicine clinical practice.
How will students, personally, be different as a result if this unit?
You will continue to reinforce your understanding and demonstrate application in live clinical settings aligned with this final clinical unit in terms of complexity. The key attributes and skills developed will provide a basis for lifelong learning in your future career.
Learning outcomes:
A range of teaching are used in the unit including:
1. Work based experiential learning:
Clinical chair-side teaching - consultant clinics in clinical Oral Medicine encompassing reflection and personalised feedback
2. Peer based learning:
Will occur at clinical meetings at the chair-side.
3. Small group teaching
You can participate in the detailed discussion of difficult clinical problems and available current best practice, with critical appraisal of available literature.
4. Observational work shadowing
5. Feedback and personalised support through tutor/mentor meetings on a regular basis
6. Self-directed learning
You would be expected to complete self-directed learning with 1:1 support and guidance from lecturers. We would expect 1-2 hours pre-reading and 1-2 hours follow up per lecture/topic teaching. Accessing NICE, SIGN, GMC, and GDC published guidance and relevant literature.
You will be supervised at all times in clinical settings.
Tasks which help you learn and prepare you for summative tasks (formative):
Tasks which count towards your unit mark (summative):
When assessment does not go to plan
If you do not pass the unit, you will normally be given the opportunity to take a reassessment as per the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes. Decisions on the award of reassessment will normally be taken after all taught units of the year have been completed. Reassessment will normally be in a similar format to the original assessment that has been failed.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. ORDSM0071).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The assessment methods listed in this unit specification are designed to enable students to demonstrate the named learning outcomes (LOs). Where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, schools will make reasonable adjustments to support a student to demonstrate the LO by an alternative method or with additional resources.
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
