Unit Synopsis
In this capstone unit you will integrate your knowledge, skills and professional experience in a range of environments in preparation for employment as an oral health therapist. In addition to treating children and adolescents, this course is approved by the National Board to train and educate you to treat adults of all ages. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate safety and competence in total patient care over a range of preventive and operative clinical procedures with patients including medically compromised patients, people with special needs and the elderly. You will also consolidate your clinical judgment skills in identifying patients who require referral for complex care outside your scope of practice. You will improve your clinical reasoning skills in a supportive environment aimed to increase your confidence through reflective and self-directed learning. On successful completion of this unit you will be able to communicate information regarding oral health in oral and written forms utilising appropriate interpersonal and team communication skills, professional attitudes and ethical behaviours.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 18 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 3 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.375 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisites: ORAL13001 Oral Health Clinical Placement 1 ALLH13011 Rural and Remote Practice for Health Professionals OR HLTH13031 Population Health Epidemiology Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 18-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 37.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 450 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Oral Examination | 40% |
| 2. Reflective Practice Assignment | 0% |
| 3. Online Quiz(zes) | 60% |
| 4. Professional Practice Placement | 0% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 42.11% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Student Unit Teaching Evaluation and In Person Feedback
Feedback about in-class test results was still considered inadequate.
It is recommended a new feedback strategy be implemented.
Students were encouraged to arrange individual sessions with the quiz marker promptly after the quiz grades were released. Group feedback was provided during the weekly tutorials after the quiz closed.
Source: Student Unit Teaching Evaluation
The teaching team are supportive and provide students with a good learning experience.
It is recommended that the teaching team continue to implement initiatives to ensure students have a good learning experience.
The teaching team will continue to support and evaluate initiatives to enhance the student learning experience.
Source: Student Unit Teaching Evaluation
Students commented that the teachers are accommodating and the content is relevant and manageable.
It is recommended to maintain teacher support and regularly review content for relevance and manageability.
In Progress
Source: Student Unit Teaching Evaluation
Some students experienced inconsistent use of the assessment rubric in the clinical assessment.
It is recommended to review the calibration sessions for assessors.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Integrate and apply knowledge, skills and clinical judgement of assessment, preventive and operative procedures with child, adolescent and adult patients in a range of environments
- Provide safe and competent oral health clinical care for patients including identifying patients who require referral pathways for complex care outside your scope of practice
- Advocate for, and promote, oral health to individuals and groups across diverse community settings in a variety of formats
- Recognise and act upon the legal, ethical and safeguarding issues involving dental practitioners and patients as defined by the relevant professional regulatory bodies in Australia and overseas.
All unit profiles in the Bachelor of Oral Health are made available to the Australian Dental Council and the Dental Board of Australia for on-going accreditation purposes.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Oral Examination | • | • | ||
| 2 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | • | ||
| 3 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | ||
| 4 - Professional Practice Placement | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | ||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | • | |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | |
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • |
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |