Journal of Disability and Oral Health

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Cover Date:
December 2020
Print ISSN:
1470-8558
Vol:
21
Issue:
4

A review of the Special Care Dentistry undergraduate curriculum and recommendations

This article describes the process of reviewing a Special Care Dentistry (SCD) undergraduate curriculum by mapping the teaching and assessment provision to learning outcomes defined by the British Society of Disability and Oral Health (BSDH) and based upon the core curriculum of the International Association of Disability and Oral Health (iADH). The BSDH learning outcomes (mapped to the General Dental Council learning outcomes) define knowledge, skills and behaviours within six core areas: scope of special care dentistry; communication skills; clinical management of SCD patients; access and barriers to oral health; consent; and impact of impairments, disabilities, and systemic conditions on oral health. Through a process of guided reflective review of the teaching and assessment provision against the learning outcomes, several curriculum recommendations were made where gaps or alternative approaches were identified. These included: developing a disability forum workshop to include a patient perspective, a workplace-based assessment for taking patient consent, and the introduction of the BDA Case Mix tool for quantifying the complexity of undergraduate student patients. Using the BDA tool in undergraduate dental education and assessment is highlighted as an innovative and novel recommendation for encouraging a holistic approach to patient care, and to quantify and assess the students’ skills in the management of the more complex patient. Using the tool encourages them to consider and quantify the complexity of their patients as a whole, rather than restricting their focus to the complexity of the clinical dentistry they perform.

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  1. Editorial
  2. 72
  3. 72

  1. A review of the Special Care Dentistry undergraduate curriculum and recommendations
  2. 73
  3. 79

  1. Development of a Domiciliary Dentistry Risk Assessment form by means of modified e-Delphi study using an expert panel
  2. 80
  3. 88

  1. Delivering escort information for intravenous sedation – is a leaflet enough?
  2. 89
  3. 95

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