Course syllabus for Oral Health - Clinic
Oral hälsa - klinik
Essential data
Specific entry requirements
The student must have started their third year at their home university.
Students who fail a clinical placement (or equivalent) during their education at KI, as a result of demonstrating such a serious lack of knowledge, skills or attitude that patient safety or the patients' confidence in medical care is at risk, will only be qualified for a clinical placement once the individual action plan has been carried out.
Outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- Independently examine, as well as plan and implement treatment for adult patients.
- Independently justify the choice of implemented measures and perform relevant risk and prognosis assessment on the basis of a holistic perspective on the patient, scientific evidence and proven experience.
- Independently plan and implement relapse prophylaxis for at-risk patients with caries and periodontitis.
- Independently provide health promotion and disease prevention feedback to patients with, or at risk of, oral diseases, in consideration of the patient's own needs and preferences, as well as documenting this in the medical records.
- Communicate and interact with patients with an empathetic and professional approach.
- Reflect on the importance of sustainable development in clinical activities.
- Collaborate with other related professions.
- Identify gaps in their own knowledge and the need for lifelong learning.
Content
Treatment of adult patients with periodontal disease and caries, and health promotion work.
Teaching methods
Seminars and clinical practice under supervision.
Examination
Examination: Verbal report in a seminar and continuous assessment throughout the course.
Compulsory parts: Seminars and clinical practice.
The examiner decides whether, and if so how, absence from compulsory course elements can be made up. Study results cannot be reported until the student has participated in compulsory course elements or compensated for any absence in accordance with instructions from the examiner.
Students who do not pass a regular examination are entitled to re-sit the examination on five more occasions. If the student has failed six examinations/tests, no additional examination is given. Regarding clinical rotations, the student has the right to attend these twice.
If there are special grounds, or a need for adaptation for a student with a disability, the examiner may decide to deviate from the syllabus's regulations on the examination form, the number of examination opportunities, the possibility of supplementation or exemptions from the compulsory section/s of the course etc. Content and learning outcomes as well as the level of expected skills, knowledge and abilities may not be changed, removed or reduced.
The examiner may, with immediate effect, interrupt a student's clinical placement (or equivalent) if the student demonstrates such serious deficiencies in knowledge, skills or attitude that patient safety or patient confidence in healthcare is at risk. If a clinical placement is interrupted in this way the student is deemed to have failed that element and to have used up one clinical placement opportunity. In such cases, an individual action plan should be set up stating which activities and tests are required before the student is qualified for a new clinical placement on the course. The number of tests within the action plan is limited to three.
Literature and other teaching aids
Recommended literature
- Lindhe's clinical periodontology and implant dentistry, Berglundh, Tord; Giannobile, William V.; Lang, Niklaus Peter; Sanz, Mariano, Seventh edition : Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2022] - 2 volumes (1314 pages) ISBN: 9781119438885, LIBRIS-ID: l07b9r40jrhsbb7d,
- Dental caries: the disease and its clinical management, Fejerskov, Ole; Nyvad, Bente; Kidd, Edwina A.M., 3. ed. : Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015 - xiv, 466 s. ISBN: 9781118935828, LIBRIS-ID: 17388351,
- Nathe, Christine Nielsen, Dental public health & research: contemporary practice for the dental hygienist, 4. ed. : Boston : Pearson, cop. 2017 - xvi, 352 s. ISBN: 9780134255460, LIBRIS-ID: 19505072,