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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Deanery of Clinical Sciences : Oral Surgery

Postgraduate Course: Oral Surgery - Clinical Patient Care 1 (OSUR12003)

Course Outline
SchoolDeanery of Clinical Sciences CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 12 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits60 ECTS Credits30
SummaryThis course encompasses the clinical elements in year 1.
Course description This course is designed to ensure that the students have wide experience in all surgical procedures. During CP1 students will be expected to competently carry out routine extraction, biopsies and all methods of delivering LA relevant to the field. They will be expected to prepare patients for and assist, in a useful manner, treatments provided by more senior clinicians under LA, IVS and GA. Their communication skills and professionalism will also be assessed during this module.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2021/22, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Full Year
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 600 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 12, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 588 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 100% Coursework
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate the ability to carry out basic oral surgical procedures independently and critique their own performance.
  2. Evaluate the management choices for patients requiring intravenous sedation or general anaesthesia for pain and management anxiety for an oral surgical procedure.
  3. Be fluent with the use of the British National Formulary.
  4. Make an appropriate treatment plan, reflect on their clinical decision-making and be able to justify it if challenged.
  5. Consent patients appropriately for the more common oral surgical procedures and take into consideration the ethos of Montgomery consenting.
Reading List
A review of coronectomy. Oral Surgery 2010 (3), 1-7 Frafjord and Renton.
Double gloving to reduce surgical cross-infection (Review) Tanner et al. Cochrane collaboration 2006. Wiley.
Prevention of alveolar osteitis with chlorhexidine: A meta-analytic review 2005. Caso et al. OOOOE 99(2) 155-59
General medicine and surgery for dental practitioners (2010) series of 6 papers. Greenwood and Meechan. BDJ
Minimising and managing nerve injuries in dental surgical. Opinion. FDJ (2011) Renton, T.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills The students will develop skills to allow them to apply knowledge, skills and understanding in using a significant range of the principal professional skills, techniques, practices and materials associated with the clinical practice of oral surgery and the ability to use a range of specialised skills, techniques, practices and materials that are at the forefront of, or informed by forefront developments in oral surgery.
KeywordsOral surgery,Tooth extraction,Third molar surgery,Surgical endodontics,Dento-alveolar trauma
Contacts
Course organiserDr Julie Burke
Tel: (0131) 536 3972
Email: jburke2@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Petra Hopert
Tel: 0131 536 3982
Email: Petra.Hopert@ed.ac.uk
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