Paediatric Dentistry DDSc

This module will provide students with insight to the overarching strategy and process involved in the application of research to their professional field. The module will be delivered wholly online and supported by interactive eLectures/audio-visual presentations, quizzes and case based interactive discussion boards. For the final assessment, students will be required to p roduce a plan for a research project. The assessment will be school specific and examples will include: experimental design; research design; grant application; ethics application etc. Each assigment must include a full plan of the research including a discussion of any ethics, propsed data collection and analysis and include a justification of the proposed methodologies including any statistics. ​Successful students will be able to understand and appropriately implement all elements of ‘the research journey’ from conception of an idea, through development/approval, execution, analysis, application and dissemination of such work.

To understand Health Service structures and clinical governance and effectively communicate with the dental team.

To produce a postgraduate capable of the general ability to design and implement a project for the generation of new knowledge, applications or understanding at the forefront of professional practice, and to adjust the project design in the light of unforeseen problems

​CDEN261 is a 30 credit Paediatric Dentistry pathway module which is part of the DDSc programme. This module provides students with the underpinning knowledge and skills required to practice Paediatric Dentistry at level 7. It is one of two foundation modules required in the Paediatric Dentistry pathway.​

The module will allow the students to gain cognitive, psychomotor and interpersonal skills in the diagnosis, treatment planning and provision of core clinical practice in Paediatric Dentistry. The module is mapped to the GDC learning outcomes for specialist training in Paediatric Dentistry.   

CDEN261 will be taught within the School of Dentistry and supervised clinical teaching will be delivered in the Paediatric Dentistry department of the Liverpool University Dental Hospital. This will involve assessing children with age ranges between 0 to 16 on new patient clinics, leading to formulating a diagnosis, recognising the effect of child physical, behavioural and cognitive development on their ability to accept dental treatment and devising treatment plans including those that may be delivered under sedation and general anaesthesia.

Students are expected to complete independent reading in preparation for regular seminars/tutorials held throughout the module. The students will participate in discussions around the current evidence-base in the literature. It would be expected that supplementary resources found by students would be critically appraised and discussed as appropriate to the module content and best practice in Paediatric Dentistry.

A range of assessment strategies will be used to assess the learning outcomes. The assessment strategies are based on the Paediatric Dentistry GDC curriculum including continuous work based assessment and personal development portfolio and two end of module summative examinations consisting of a written examination and a structured clinical examination.

This is a 60 credit module that will be available for the DDSc in Dental Science programme Paediatric Dentistry pathway.

The module will provide students with the additional skills, knowledge and training required to manage children with different behavioural and dental needs using both non-pharmacological and pharmacological behaviour management techniques. 

This module will enable the student to acquire cognitive, psychomotor and interpersonal skills to assess, treatment plan and provide core clinical practice using behaviour, cognitive management strategies and conscious sedation to meet the needs of paediatric patients in addition to providing treatment under general anaesthesia.   

The module will be taught within the School of Dentistry with supervised clinical teaching delivered in the Paediatric Dentistry department of the Liverpool University Dental Hospital. This module will involve providing a range of clinical procedures for a wide range of paediatric patients. 

There will be structured teaching, seminars, practical classes, chairside teaching, case based learning and project work in the form of audits, case reports and essays. The students will be undertaking self-directed learning to enhance the module programme and will attend verified external courses provided by specialist society conferences in a variety of Paediatric Dentistry topics. 

The syllabus meets the core requirements for the specialty training programme and the Standards for Conscious Sedation in the Provision of Dental Care by the Report of the Intercollegiate Advisory Committee for Sedation in Dentistry. The dental faculties of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and the Royal College of Anaesthetists. (IASCD 2015).​

A variety of assessments will be used in the module. These will be mapped to the relevant curricula including continuous work based assessments, use of a personal development portfolio and a logbook. There will be a summative examination at the end of each module consisting of a written examination and a structured clinical examination. Students will record their learning, clinical placements, assessments and reflections using a secure on-line National Portfolio (Intercollegiate Surgical Competence Progression (ISCP)). For students with a National Training Number (NTN), the ISCP portfolio will support assessment through the Annual Review of Competence Programme (ARCP).   https://www.iscp.ac.uk/static/dental/PaedAppendix.pdf​​

Module CDEN361 provides students with teaching, learning support and strategies to enable the student to demonstrate systematic acquisition of the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours required to provide specialist Paediatric Dentistry to children with complex medical and dental needs.

It is a core module in the Paediatric Dentistry Pathway which underpins the academic and clinical training requirements for the Specialist Training Curriculum in Paediatric Dentistry/General Dental Council UK.

The students will have supervised clinical contact time with consultants and specialists in Paediatric Dentistry within Hospital Dental Services.​ 

CDEN361 will be taught within the School of Dentistry and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, supervised clinical teaching will be delivered in the Paediatric Dentistry Departments of both.

The students will be gaining relevant skills in information gathering, informed consent, managing children with complex dental and medical needs (including those suffering from dental trauma and dental anomalies) and children with complex medical co-morbidities. 

CDEN361 includes structured teaching, seminars, practical classes, chairside teaching, case based learning and project work. Students will be encouraged towards self-directed learning to enhance the module programme and will attend external courses provided by specialist society conferences in a variety of Paediatric Dentistry topics.

A variety of assessments will be used in module CDEN361 and mapped to the Paediatric Dentistry Specialist curriculum and include continuous work based assessments, use of a Personal Development Portfolio and logbook. A summative examination will be held at the end of the module consisting of a written examination and a structured clinical examination.

Students will record their learning, clinical placements, assessments and reflections using a secure on-line National Portfolio (Intercollegiate Surgical Competence Progression, ISCP). For students with a National Training Number (NTN), the ISCP portfolio will support assessment through the Annual Review of Competence Programme (ARCP). https://www.iscp.ac.uk/static/dental/PaedAppendix.pdf​ ​

This is a 60 credit module provide students with teaching, learning support and strategies to enable systematic acquisition of the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours required at the level of a specialist in Paediatric Dentistry in the provision of multidisciplinary oral healthcare for children with complex needs.

The students will have supervised clinical contact time with consultants and specialists within Hospital Dental Services.

Placements will be arranged with other medical and dental consultant and specialist teams and multidisciplinary team meeting and clinics to facilitate deeper inter-professional learning.

CDEN362 will be taught within the School of Dentistry and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and supervised clinical teaching will be delivered in the Paediatric Dentistry Departments of both.  There will be attendance to joint clinics with other specialities in addition to attending orthodontics, oral surgery and oral medicine clinics.

This module will involve assessing children on new patient clinics, planning treatment and providing a range of clinical procedures for a wide range of children with complex dental and /or medical needs.

The students will gather information on a multidisciplinary basis considering health and social care, gaining consent, performing risk assessments and undertaking supervised clinical practice.  

The Module includes structured teaching, seminars, practical classes, chairside teaching, case based learning and project work. Students will be encouraged towards self-directed learning to enhance the module programme and will attend external courses provided by specialist society conferences in a variety of Paediatric Dentistry topics.

A variety of assessments will be used which are mapped to the Paediatric Dentistry Specialist curriculum and include continuous work based assessments, use of a Personal Development Portfolio and logbook. A summative examination will be held at the end of the module consisting of a written examination and a structured clinical examination.

Students will record their learning, clinical placements, assessments and reflections using a secure on-line National Portfolio(Intercollegiate Surgical Competence Progression, ISCP). For students with a National Training Number (NTN), the ISCP portfolio will support assessment through the Annual Review of Competence Programme (ARCP). https://www.iscp.ac.uk/static/dental/PaedAppendix.pdf​