Dental Surgery DS5001 A Learning Outcomes Approach

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Dental Surgery DS5001 A Learning
Outcomes Approach Dr. EM OSullivan, Dept. Oral
Maxillofacial Surgery Cork University Dental
School Hospital, UCC

• INTRODUCTION TO DS5001
• Compulsory module for 5th Year Dental
  Undergraduates
• Sub-divisions oral medicine, surgery, radiology,
  AE
• Teaching methods formal lectures, small group
  seminars, one-to-one clinical teaching, local
  reading
• Assessment formative daily oral assessment,
  formal oral, written, OSCE summative examinations
• Current module descriptor
• To develop skills in advanced oral surgery, oral
  medicine and pathology

• RULES FOR WRITING LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Avoid unnecessary jargon and ambiguous verbs
• Be clearly written, specific, relevant,
  achievable
• Describe intended outcome not teaching process
• Tap into each level of student ability

• LEARNING OUTCOMES APPROACH
• Dentistry is a practical, vocational subject with
  well defined professional attributes
• Emphasis on learners ability to DO something
  particularly relevant
• Helps explode hidden curriculum
• Three domains of equal significance

• DENTAL CURRICULUM REVISION DRIVERS
• Information explosion
• Bologna Declaration 1999
• HEA demands for Quality and Audit
• Professional bodies IDC, GDC, DentEd
• Need for parity of international degrees
• Unacceptable variation in standards
• GDC First Five Years - Learning Outcomes

• PSYCHOMOTOR LEARNING OUTCOMES - DS5001
• Prescribe and process dental radiographs
• Administer LA safely
• Perform basic oral surgical procedures
• Manage intra post-op complications
• Recognise, evaluate and manage dental
• and medical emergencies

• LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Focuses on what students are expected to be able
  to DO as a result of course
• Paradigm shift from content-centred teaching
  towards learner-centred teaching
• Frameworks developed to help teach thinking
• Blooms Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (1956)
  
• Bloom classified intellectual behaviour into
  three domains Cognitive, Psychomotor, Affective

• COGNITIVE LEARNING OUTCOMES DS5001
• Recall anatomy physiology
• Outline aetiology, symptoms, pathology, diagnosis
  and treatment of oro-facial disease
• List steps in patient assessment
• Apply this format to unseen case
• Summarise case information
• Evaluate information, generate differential
  diagnosis
• Formulate appropriate treatment plan
• Justify proposal with consideration to patient
  expectations

BLOOMS COGNITIVE DOMAIN Sub-divided into six
hierarchical levels by Bloom Lower order
thinking Knowledge Comprehension Application Highe
r order thinking Analysis Synthesis Evaluation

• AFFECTIVE LEARNING OUTCOMES - DS5001
• Manage patients in pain
• Display communication skills
• Demonstrate good clinical governance
• Develop time management skills
• Determine which patients require referral

REVISED BY ANDERSON ET AL, 2001 Retained
hierarchical, changed sequence Added action
verbs Remember Understand Apply Analyse Evaluate
Create

• CONCLUSIONS
• Encourages a more systematic approach to teaching
• More precise planning, presentation, assessment
• Effective links between teaching learning
  strategies
• Students know what is required and take
  responsibility
• Increased transparency and accountability
• Considerable attitudinal change required for
  success