Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
End of Degree Presentation
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English
Teaching staff
Coordinator: Marta Nieto Satorres
msatorres@uic.es
Business Day: Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon from 16 to 18 by appointment
place: surgery office or CUO4
Introduction
The subject Bachelor’s Thesis Presentation should provide the student with the experience and necessary content to be able to follow the protocol of a clinical study or carry out the experimental development of a study that will allow him or her to complete an evidence-based research project and defend it before an evaluation panel.
Pre-course requirements
The student must have passed the subjects of the first three years of the degree programme and 80% of the subjects of the fourth year, as well as the subject Bachelor’s Thesis.
Objectives
At the end of their bachelor’s studies, students should be able to demonstrate the knowledge they have acquired during the degree programme regarding a given topic, providing specific evidence-based detail through the development of a research project under the basic research lines established. At the end of the course, students should be able to duly defend their project before an evaluation panel.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 01 - Being aware of the essential elements of the dental profession, including the ethical principles and legal responsibilities it involves.
- 02 - Understanding how important these principles are in order to benefit patients, society and the profession, with particular attention being paid to professional secrecy.
- 03 - Knowing how to identify the concerns and expectations of patients, as well as how to communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, with patients, family members, the media and other professionals.
- 04 - Understanding and recognising the social and psychological aspects that are relevant in terms of treating patients.
- 05 - Knowing how to apply the correct principles to control anxiety and stress in oneself, in patients and in other memebers of the dentistry team.
- 06 - Understanding the importance of achieving a professional practice that respects the independence, beliefs and culture of all patients.
- 07 - Promoting new knowledge and techniques being acquired through autonomous learning, as well as the motivation to achieve quality.
- 08 - Knowing how to share information with other healthcare professionals and how to work as part of a team.
- 09 - Understanding the importance of keeping and using patient files in order to subsequently analyse them, while ensuring patient confidentiality is maintained.
- 10 - Knowing and being able to identify the psychological and physical problems derived from gender violence in order to train students in the prevention, early detection of, care for and rehabilitation of the victims of this type of violence.
- 11 - Understanding the basic biomedical science Dentistry is based on in order to ensure that adequate dental healthcare is provided.
- 12 - Understanding and recognising the structure and normal function of the stomatognathic apparatus, at a molecular, cellular, tissue and organic level, during the various stages of life.
- 13 - Understanding and recognising the science behind the essential bio-materials involved in dental practice as well as immediately managing potential allergies to these.
- 14 - Being aware of the general processes of the illness, including infection, inflammation, alterations in the immune system, degeneration, neoplasm, metabolic alterations and genetic disorders.
- 15 - Being familiar with the general pathological characteristics of the illnesses and disorders that affect organic systems, specifically those which have dental repercussions.
- 16 - Understanding the fundamental basis of actions, instructions and the efficiency of medicines and other healthcare interventions, knowing what their side-effects, interactions, systemic effects and interactions with other organs are, based on the scientific knowledge available.
- 17 - Understanding and recognising the principles of ergonomics and safety at work (including the control of cross infection, radiation protection and occupational and biological diseases).
- 18 - Being aware of, critically evaluating and knowing how to use sources of clinical and biomedical infomation in order to obtain, organise, interpret and communicate scientific and healthcare-related information.
- 19 - Being aware of scientific methods and having the critical ability to evaluate established knowledge and innovative information. Being able to formulate hypotheses, collect and critically evaluate information in order to resolve problems, in accordance with scientific methods.
- 20 - Obtaining and creating a medical record containing all the relevant information.
- 21 - Knowing how to undertake a full dental exam, including the necessary X-ray and complementary exploratory tests, as well as obtaining suitable clinical references.
- 22 - Having the ability to make an initial diagnostic judgement and establish a reasonable diagnostic strategy, as well as being competent in recognising situations that require urgent dental treatment.
- 23 - Establishing a diagnosis, prognosis and suitable treatment planning for all the different clinical areas of Dentistry, being competent in terms of the diagnosis, prognosis and writing up the dental care plan for patients who require special care, including medically compromised patients (such as diabetics, those with hypertension, a depressed immune system or are anticoagulated, etc) and patients with disabilities.
- 24 - Recognising situations in which lives are at risk and knowing how to provide basic life-support.
- 25 - Being aware of and applying basic treatment for the most common dental pathology in patients of all ages. The treatment procedures must be based on the concept of minimally invasive surgery and an overall and comprehensive focus on dental treatment.
- 26 - Knowing how to plan and undertake multidisciplinary, sequential and comprehensive dental treatment of limited complexity for patients of all ages and conditions and for patients who require special care.
- 27 - Outlining and proposing suitable preventative measures for each clinical situation.
- 28 - Acquiring clinical experience under suitable supervision.
- 29 - Recognising the underlying causes of dental health in the population, whether genetic, lifestyle, demographic, environmental, social, economic, psychological or cultural.
- 30 - Recognising the role of the dentist in actions to prevent and protect against oral diseases, as well as the maintenance and promotion of good health, both at an individual level and a community level.
- 31 - Knowing about the National Healthcare System, as well as the basic aspects of healthcare legislation, clinical management and the correct use of healthcare resources, and understanding the importance of the role of the dentist in the field of Primary Healthcare
- 93 - Final degree project: A cross-disciplinary subject involving a project covering various types of material.
Syllabus
Systematic literature review:
- Search strategies - Organisation of the literature - Bibliographic search
Scientific methodology:
- Hypothesis and objectives - Experimental designs - Planning of the bachelor’s thesis
Statistical analysis:
- Statistical review
- Practical problems
Written presentation of information:
Research report - Organisation and style - Structure of academic writing
- Clinical and experimental sciences
- Non-experimental sciences
- Communication errors - Formal and aesthetic aspects
Oral presentation of information:
- Structure and organisation of content
- Formal and aesthetic aspects
- Contextualisation
Teaching and learning activities
In person
“In vitro” study
- The student will carry out the experimental phase under the supervision of the lecturer, as described in the report, collecting the data needed in a sheet designed for this purpose in accordance with the accepted protocol.
- The student, with support of his tutor, will carry out the statistical study, consulting specific points with a statistics specialist when needed at the discretion of the tutor.
- Results. Description of results, tables, graphs, etc., with the statistics results obtained. The lecturer will evaluate the student’s understanding of the statistics. It is important not to repeat information and to include the statistical results themselves.
- Discussion. The student will compare both the methodology used and the results with those in the reviewed literature.
- Conclusions. These should be numbered and be based on the objectives described at the project’s outset in the Objectives section.
- Future perspectives. Description of perspectives for further study.
- Bibliographic references.
- Submission of the BT as per deadline.
- Defence of the BT.
“In vivo” study
- Clinical case carried out by the student: The student will carry out the treatment on the patients under the supervision of the tutor.
- Materials and methods: The student will describe the technique used, as well as the materials. All records needed will be taken for carrying out the treatment and for documenting it, which will be supervised by the tutor.
- The materials used must be included in a table including name, brand, country of origin, batch number, etc.
- It will be accompanied by graphic material of the treatment undertaken, as well as of all complementary explorations.
- The duration and evolution of the patient, as well as the possible successive controls, will be described.
- Discussion. Discussion of the methodology, of the pros and cons of the selected treatment and of contraindications.
- Conclusions. These should be numbered and be based on the objectives described at the project’s outset in the Objectives section.
- Future perspectives. Description of perspectives for further study.
- Bibliographic references.
- Submission of the BT as per deadline.
- Presentation of the BT.
Retrospective study.
- Students, under the supervision of the tutor, will apply for the necessary documentation, which will allow them to collect the information needed for developing their research.
- Students will register the information collected on the data collection sheet described in the report.
- The student, with support of his tutor, will carry out the statistical study, consulting specific points with a statistics specialist when needed at the discretion of the tutor.
- Results. Description of results, tables, graphs, etc., with the statistics results obtained. The lecturer will evaluate the student’s understanding of the statistics. It is important not to repeat information and to include the statistical results themselves.
- Discussion. The student will compare both the methodology used and the results with those in the reviewed literature.
- Conclusions. These should be numbered and be based on the objectives described at the project’s outset in the Objectives section.
- Future perspectives. Description of perspectives for further study.
- Bibliographic references.
- Submission of the BT as per deadline.
- Defence of the BT.
Literature review:
- The student, under the supervision of the lecturer, will carry out the search and the analysis of the literature as described in the report.T
- The student, with support of his tutor, will carry out the statistical study, consulting specific points with a statistics specialist when needed at the discretion of the tutor.
- Results. Description of results, tables, graphs, etc., with the statistics results obtained. The lecturer will evaluate the student’s understanding of the statistics. It is important not to repeat information and to include the statistical results themselves.
- Discussion. The student will compare both the methodology used and the results with those in the reviewed literature.
- Conclusions. These should be numbered and be based on the objectives described at the project’s outset in the Objectives section.
- Future perspectives. Description of perspectives for further study.
- Bibliographic references.
- Submission of the BT as per deadline.
- Defence of the BT
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
Continuous assessment of the student will be carried out through tutorials in accordance with the established calendar.
Individual work:
The lecturer will have an evaluation sheet that will need to be filled out after each tutorial session. This will enable the lecturer to evaluate a series of parameters allowing for the objective monitoring of the individual work of the student.
Tutorial sessions:
The lecturer will mark the communication with the student, as well as his or her evolution through the various stages. Presentation of assigned tasks, punctuality, interest, etc.
Attendance of all activities related to the subject is compulsory and will have an influence over the final mark.
At the end of the second semester, and according to the same calendar, the BTs will be divided among the members of the evaluation panel. Subsequently, the student will set out to orally defend the BT before the evaluation panel.
Individual work: 20%
Tutorial sessions: 20%
Bachelor’s thesis: 40%
Defence of the BT: 20%