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SDDM5225: Core Clinical Practice 1
2025 unit information
In this unit, students will participate in clinical placements designed for students to work towards competency in patient assessment, codesign of treatment plans and dental treatment delivery for patients. At this stage, patient-centred treatment planning is a focus. Clinical settings include interprofessional models of care. Students continue development of knowledge and skills in endodontics, periodontics, radiography and prosthodontics in simulation and laboratory settings. Students learn about growth and development of children and anomalies and pathologies seen in child patients.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Discipline of Restorative and Reconstructive Dentistry |
| Credit points | 18 |
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Prerequisites:
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SDDM5115 and SDDM5125 and SDDM5215 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. LCP: Acquire and acknowledge the cultures, experiences, strengths and health needs of indigenous individuals and communities to provide health care in a holistic manner.
- LO2. LCP: Demonstrate ability to apply the concepts of consent and respect for privacy/confidentiality to clinical practice.
- LO3. SCOH: Describe dental health care implications of domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, and neglect of vulnerable people such as children and older people.
- LO4. PHP: Demonstrate understanding of disciplinary knowledge in planning, implementing, and evaluating oral health programs for diverse populations, employing strategies for comprehensive patient care and oral health promotion.
- LO5. EBP: Critically appraise evidence to determine reliability, validity and applicability to a patient context.
- LO6. IPT: Develop and demonstrate knowledge and ability to work effectively and professionally with interdisciplinary teams in a broader healthcare context. This is achieved within a multidisciplinary, patient focussed healthcare framework, recognising that dental and oral health is an important element we contribute as part of a multi disciplinary, team based approach to achieve positive patient healthcare outcomes.
- LO7. OSB: Apply integrated oral and systemic bioscience knowledge and scientific inquiry skills to critically analyse diverse oral health needs across lifespan.
- LO8. CS&CS-RP: Integrate knowledge from evaluation and management of the completely edentulous patient with newly acquired knowledge to evaluate and manage the partially edentulous patient with removable prostheses.
- LO9. CS&CS-Perio: Understand and explain various types of periodontal diseases and their clinical attributes, perform initial diagnostics, formulate treatment plans, and execute initial periodontal therapy.
- LO10. CS&CS-TC: To apply and translate the disciplinary knowledge and practical skills of preclinical tooth conservation in patient care.
- LO11. CS&CS-Rdx: Understand and apply systematic strategies to describe various abnormalities observed in common diagnostic imaging modalities. Understand how the principles of systematic description correlate to the elaboration of differential diagnoses. Develop knowledge to safely apply principles of extraoral imaging techniques in simulation and clinical practice.
- LO12. CS&CS-Endo: Develop and demonstrate disciplinary knowledge and practical technical skills in endodontic procedures.
- LO13. CS&CS-IC: Develop and demonstrate skills and competence in initial assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment planning of patients
- LO14. CS&CS-Cariology: Develop competence in assessment, examination and diagnosis of dental carious lesions using both ICDAS and DiAGNOdent tools and gain experience in caries risk assessment and implementing the caries management system (CMS).
- LO15. CS&CS-OS: Develop knowledge to enable safe and efficient removal of teeth, thought effective pre-, peri- and post-operative management of patients requiring tooth removal. Develop knowledge and practice to safely and effectively administer local anaesthetic solutions to patients.
- LO16. CS&CS-Occ: Describe the main functions of the skeletomotor system of the jaws, use facebow to articulate study casts in an articulator, assess the accuracy of the articulated casts, carry out simple adjustments, and explain and demonstrate occlusal splint application and design using both traditional and CAD-CAM methods.
- LO17. CS&CS-Paeds: Describe important development aspects of a child, recognise the normal pattern of tooth development and eruption, recognise and manage common dental anomalies, and common soft tissue pathologies.
- LO18. DMD Project: Apply the knowledge and skills in research methodology to conduct a proposed project and disseminate the generated knowledge in the form of a written report.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Surry Hills, Sydney |
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