The development of a primary dental care outreach course

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Section: Developing the Course And Its Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 60%

Developing a primary dental care outreach (PDCO) course – part 1: practical issues and evaluation of clinical activity

Hind

Waterhouse

Maguire

et al. 2009

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“…At the time of this survey there appeared to be a high student to staff ratio for oral surgery teaching in comparison with other reported ratios in the literature (17). As oral surgery has some of the most serious complications in dentistry, it is possible that this led to strain on the teachers involved.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 78%

Oral surgery undergraduate teaching and experience in the United Kingdom: a national survey

Macluskey

Durham

2009

The aim of this work was to determine the structure, mode of delivery, mode of assessment and staffing of the oral surgery undergraduate curriculum within UK dental schools. A questionnaire was distributed by e-mail in January 2006 to each of the 15 dental schools with undergraduate dental degree programmes in Ireland and the UK. Those providing feedback then met to clarify any areas as required. Thirteen completed questionnaires were returned. There were a total of 55 academics involved in the teaching of oral surgery at these 13 institutions. Over the three clinical years the mean number of clinical sessions was 51. The mean staff student ratio for supervision of forceps exodontia was 1:5. On average 51 teeth were extracted by each student in the clinical years. The mean staff student ratio for surgical extractions was 1:2. The mean number of surgical extractions for each student was 6. All schools formatively assessed competency in forceps exodontia and 9 of 13 assessed surgical extractions. Summative assessment of exodontia was done in six schools and surgical extractions in 4 of 13 schools. All 13 schools deliver teaching programmes designed to meet the requirements of the frameworks governing the central curriculum. There were, however, variations between individual schools in the content and delivery of the oral surgery clinical teaching programmes. There were dramatic variations in the numbers of academic staff involved and some institutions relied on their NHS colleagues to deliver the clinical teaching.

“…Currently, many educational institutions are shifting towards training undergraduates in a range of clinical settings, including smaller public community clinics in conjunction with large hospitals attached to university dental schools (13,22,23).…”

Section: Development and Structure Of The Rural Dental Rotationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of a rural outplacement programme for dental undergraduates: students’ perceptions

Abuzar

Burrow

Morgan

2009

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