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Course description

This course introduces students to a range of specialist dental disciplines expanding the breadth of their clinical knowledge, skills and understanding beyond those needed for the delivery of basic general dental care. Students will acquire skills and attain competence in history taking, assessment, recognition, diagnosis, care planning and aspects of management for a range of dental, oral, facial and masticatory conditions commonly managed within the dental specialties including removable prosthodontics, endodontics, dentomaxillofacial radiology, oral medicine, oral surgery and orthodontics. To support their understanding and clinical skills in these areas students will explore aspects of human diseases, oral diseases, general medicine, general surgery and pain management as well as dental pharmacology and therapeutics. Each week students will undertake approximately 6 hours of clinical patient care including provision of care, dental assisting and observations and 9 hours of competency building activities such as lectures, seminars, problem-based learning, workshops, self-directed activities and pre-clinical simulation exercises. This course assumes approximately 3 hours of self-directed learning each week.

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