Subject

General Dentistry

  • code 10470
  • course 5
  • term Semester 2
  • type PR
  • credits 12

Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English

Teaching staff

Head instructor

Dr. Juan BASILIO - jbasilio@uic.es

Office hours

Horari d'atenció

Contactar amb Dr.Basilio per sol.licitar visita : jbasilio@uic.es

Introduction

In the event that the health authorities announce a new period of confinement due to the evolution of the health crisis caused by COVID-19, the teaching staff will promptly communicate how this may effect the teaching methodologies and activities as well as the assessment.

The objective of this subject of the last year of the degree programme is to provide the student with a “clinical practicum” which will allow him or her to improve skills in both the diagnosis of the different oral pathologies studied during the degree programme, and the application of the different treatments.

Pre-course requirements

Prior to enrolment, the prospective student must have passed the following fourth-year subjects:

Restorative Clinical Dentistry 1
Restorative Clinical Dentistry 2
Prosthodontics 3
Prosthodontics 4

Objectives

To improve the clinical practice of the students in their performance of a proper anamnesis and clinical exploration of the patient, and in their use of the different complementary tests.

Students will be able to gather all the information in a clinical record in an organised manner, with knowledge of how to discern relevant information from information of lesser importance.

To help students acquire clinical practice skills for patients, whether special needs patients or not, whether adults and children, when treating the most common symptoms of the different specialist areas, so that students are qualified to provide comprehensive essential dental clinical care.

To train students in the treatment of dental emergencies and in the prescription of appropriate drugs. 

Competences / Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • 83 - Treating destructive processes and dento-alveolar trauma injuries via operations
  • 84 - Undertaking endodontic treatment and applying procedures to preserve pulp vitality
  • 85 - Undertaking conventional aesthetic procedures from a multidisciplinary perspective
  • 86 - To treat both partial and full edentulism, including the biological design (specific design characteristics), dental preparation, obtaining record, clinical trials and adapting partial and full removable prostheses to patients, simple dental-supported bridges and simple prostheses on top of implants, both removable and fixed, including
  • 87 - To write up prescriptions to measure for healthcare products such as «dental prostheses» and «orthodontic and dento-facial orthopaedic apparatus»
  • 88 - To undertake non-surgical treatment for temporo-mandibular disorders and oro-facial pain
  • 89 - To undertake bucco-dental treatment on young patients and recognise its characteristics and peculiarities
  • 90 - To identify and correct oral habits that are susceptible to causing or exacerbating malocclusions
  • 91 - To plan and determine the specific characteristics of the design, records, prescription, clinical trails, placement and clinical adjustment for fitting removable and fixed space-maintainers and interceptive orthodontic techniques as well as extractable active elements destined to reposition teeth or correct an overbite
  • 92 - Pre-professional practicums, in a rotational dental clinic with a final evaluation of competences, which allow for the incorporation of professional values, healthcare communication competences, clinical reasoning and management, and critical judgement. This must also include clinical work by the students on patients of all ages and conditions, in a comprehensive manner and under suitable supervision.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 64 - Undertaking basic oral and dental pathology treatments for patients of all ages. The treatment procedures should be minimally invasive and based on a comprehensive and integrated approach to oral and dental treatment
  • 65 - Diagnosing, planning and undertaking, at a general level, multidisciplinary, sequential and integrated treatment of limited complexity for patients of all ages and conditions and patients with special needs (diabetes, hypertension, oncological diseases, transplants, immune-depression, anti-clotting, etc.) or disabilities. Specifically the dentist should be competent in establishing a diagnosis, a prognosis and developing a suitable treatment plan, particularly in terms of orofacial pain, temporo-mandibular disorders, bruxism and other parafunctions; dental and periapical pathology; oral and dental trauma; periodontal and peri-implanted tissue pathologies; pathology of the mandibular bone, of soft oral tissue and annex glands; states of partial or total edentation and planning rehabilitation treatment via dento-muco supported prostheses, or dental impants, dental malpositions or malocculusions and other anatomical or functional alterations of the face or the stomatognathic system and their potential orthodontic, orthopaedic or surgical corrections
  • 66 - Taking and interpreting x-rays and other image-based procedures that are important in dental practice
  • 67 - Creating diagnostic models, setting them up and taking inter-occlusal registrations
  • 68 - Determining and identifying the aesthetic requirements of patients and the possibility of resolving their concerns
  • 69 - Identifying patients who require special care, recognising the characteristics and peculiarities of such cases
  • 70 - Evaluating motor and sensory oral, mandibular and annex function
  • 71 - Undertaking limited procedures for invasive diagnostic techniques using soft tissue (biopsies)
  • 72 - Appropriate medical prescriptions, while being aware of their guidelines and warnings, systemic effects and repercussions on other organs
  • 73 - Applying loco-regional anaesthetic techniques
  • 74 - Preparing and isolating the operatory field
  • 75 - Identifying, evaluating and attending to medical emergencies which may arise during clinical practice and apply cardiopulmonary recuscitation techniques; manage severe infections, including pharmaceutical prescriptions and simple surgical aspects
  • 76 - Identifying and dealing with any dental emergencies
  • 77 - Undertaking medical and surgical treatment for common diseases in soft oral tissue
  • 78 - Undertaking simple surgical procedures: the extraction of temporarily and permanently erupted teeth, fractured or retained roots and the uncomplicated surgical extraction of non-erupted teeth and simple procedures for pre-prosthesic surgery
  • 79 - Treating dento-alveolar trauma in temporary and permanent dentitions
  • 80 - Treating the inflammatory processes of periodontal tissue both pharmacologically and surgically, including supra and subgingival techniques for periodontal instrumentation
  • 81 - Evaluating and treating patients with caries or other dental non-carious pathologies and being able to use all the material required for restoring the shape, function and aesthetics of the tooth in patients of all ages
  • 82 - Designing, preparing teeth, prescribing, recording, doing clinical tests, fitting and putting indirect restorations into service: incrustations, veneers or aesthetic laminate veneers and unitary crowns

Learning outcomes of the subject

  • 5.01 - Integrate, organize and implement all the knowledge acquired during the degree to provide adequate and comprehensive dental care to the patient.
  • 5.02 - Conduct a multidisciplinary, sequential and integrated dental treatment of the patient of any age or condition.
  • 5.03 - Make the right treatment according to the individual needs of each patient and have to be objective and valid, suitable with current therapy, quality and congruent.
  • 5.04 - Fulfill the praxis and the ethical professional code of.
  • 5.08 - - Develop independent learning strategies, guided by a tutor, which represents an improvement to maintain current knowledge, skills and attitudes of professional skills
  • 5.10 - Develop the skills of analysis, synthesis, planning and organization
  • 5.11 - Develop the skills of oral and written communication
  • 5.12 - Develop the capabilities of information management and teamwork
  • 5.13 - Develop the critical argument skills and autonomous learning

Syllabus

  hours of integrated clinical practice on patients in the facilities of the University Dental Clinic.

  hours of seminars, in which the student will work on clinical cases and review treatment protocols.

Teaching and learning activities


In blended

clinical practice monitored by a responsible teacher.

Clinical seminars in blended format.


Presentation in Congresses and Clinical Competitions for students.

Evaluation systems and criteria


In blended


1-Seminars blended

Attendance at seminars is compulsory for all students. In case of 2 unexcused absences or more than 3 even if they are justified, it will be considered as not approved.
At the end of the seminars, the instructor will average all the marks obtained by the student. The grade obtained will be over 10 and will weigh 10 percent of the total grade for the course.

2- Clinical Practices:

Attendance at preclinical practices is compulsory for all students.
A system has been established in which students' theoretical knowledge, attitudes and clinical skills are assessed through continuous assessment:

NOTE 1: Evaluate the Treatment according to the following criteria: (60% of the mark)

1. Knowledge of clinical protocols
2. Compliance with CUO protocols
3. Teamwork
4. Clinical ability

Note 2: Evaluate the General Attitude according to the following criteria: (20% of the grade)

1. Deal with the patient and other CUO staff.
2. Punctuality
3. Presence
4. Order
5. Communication with the patient


Each day of CUO, the instructor evaluates the practice carried out at that time by the student, detailing the type of treatment performed, numerically scoring the treatment on the one hand and the student's attitude on the other. It also indicates whether the student has been absent or late that day.
The final grade for the course is the weighted sum of the grade for the clinical practices, the seminars and the presentation of the Clinical Case Book (80%, 10%, 10%).
Likewise, the presentation by the student of some communication in dental congresses will also have an influence on the final grade, being positively valued in their final grade for the quarter (0.5 points on the final grade for the semester or 1 point on the grade). end of the semester if you were the winner or published an article in a sector magazine)


RECOVERY SUSPENDED PRACTICES
All students suspended in the clinic are entitled to a 2nd call to be made before the closing of the minutes of the CUO grades (September of the current year).

ABSENCES AND PUNCTUALITY
As we have previously commented, attendance is compulsory. Failure to attend clinical practices prevents the student from developing and expressing their clinical skills on patients.
Absences:
You can only miss Three times a semester with justification; being recoverable during the semester exam period. Said justifications must be official and not be issued by a direct family member.
If the absences are not excused, it implies a suspension of the semester practices. These practices will be recovered at the Summer Clinic (June to September). The student will adapt to the dates (period) and weeks (number of practices) determined by the coordination of the Integrated Clinic Area.
From Four or more absences (Excused) implies the recovery of the same in the summer period (June to September) to be agreed (number and weeks) by the Coordination of the Integrated Clinic Area.
Regarding the subjects that average with CUO: The students who have had more absences than allowed (> 3) and their average of CUO is approved, a NO Presented (NP) will be recorded in the report card of 1st call, waiting for him to recover these practices on 2nd call.
In these cases, the theoretical note (if approved) will be kept until the 2nd call to be able to make the final average and indicate it in the 2nd call record.


Puntuality:
The student is assigned a schedule, so they must be 10 minutes before starting, in order to prepare everything related to the patient. Only a maximum tolerance of 10 minutes is accepted. A longer delay will be considered non-attendance, which implies that the student must make up the practice in the exam week, without prejudice to the patient named that day (they must attend to it).
In the event that the patient does not come to the visit, the student must remain in CUO and carry out the Laboratory tasks or they may have assigned an emergency. The instructor may give you permission to leave 20 minutes before the end of your CUO schedule.
In case the student finishes his treatment prematurely, he must remain in CUO fulfilling his practice schedule, the instructor may give him permission to leave 20 minutes before the end of his schedule in CUO.
In all these cases, if the student leaves earlier or is absent during their CUO hours, it will also be considered non-attendance.
Within the evaluation of the student's attitude, apart from punctuality, we should comment on the cases in which that attitude is so negative that it is classified as a very serious, serious or mild offense and involves not only a low grade but also some type of sanction that It is detailed on the UIC intranet in Forums / CUO / Materials / Regulations CUO.

Bibliography and resources

The clinical protocols for the treatments to be performed are posted on the Intranet, in the section

FORUM-CUO-MATERIALS-PROTOCOLOS CUO

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