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SDDM6411: Extramural and Advanced Clinical Practice 1
2026 unit information
This unit provides students with the opportunity to develop integrated ways of knowing, doing and being as dental professionals who, upon successful completion of the course, will be able to manage patients with an increasingly complex range of dental problems. The focus of the fourth year is to emphasise a holistic, person-centred and preventionoriented approach to oral health care. Students will spend the majority of their time within a primary metropolitan clinical placement site and specialist clinics. There are opportunities for extended placements to rural locations. In the first semester, there is a focus on developing confidence in the care of patients with special needs, as well as core skills in interprofessional communication. Business concepts relevant for dentistry and dental implants are introduced in this unit.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Discipline of Restorative and Reconstructive Dentistry |
| Credit points | 24 |
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Prerequisites:
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SDDM5115 and SDDM5125 and SDDM5215 and SDDM5225 and SDDM5216 and SDDM5226 and SDDM6311 and SDDM6321 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate appropriate professional and socially responsible behaviour in a professional practice setting.
- LO2. Demonstrate ethical and culturally responsive behaviour in meeting the needs of patients including a concern for confidentiality and respect for individual autonomy, enabling patients and to make informed decisions about their dental care.
- LO3. Provide clinical patient care in specialized and comprehensive care settings, in rural or urban locations. Safely perform relevant clinical procedures.
- LO4. Assess, interpret and provide integrated management of the needs of dental patients through sound clinical reasoning and provision of evidence based clinical care within the scope of practice of a dentist
- LO5. Apply a knowledge of human structure, function and behaviour surgical anatomy, physiology, pathology, medicine and pharmacology to the diagnosis and clinical management of dental patients and the prevention of oral conditions
- LO6. Apply a knowledge of critical perspectives of disability to the clinical care of patients with special needs
- LO7. Explain key concepts about, and clinical considerations of, dental implants
- LO8. Prescribe appropriate medication for dental patients
- LO9. Demonstrate disciplinary knowledge and advanced clinical competence in common oral surgical procedures including local anaesthesia and surgical management
- LO10. Maintain up-to-date, factual, objective and legible records that report relevant details of clinical history, clinical findings, investigations, information given to patients, medication and other management
- LO11. Explain key business concepts for dental practice and employment considerations when joining the dental workforce.
- LO12. Demonstrate effective inter-professional behaviours in collaboration and communication with peers and colleagues. Engage in constructive feedback conversations.
- LO13. Take and interpret radiographs as indicated for oral diagnosis and treatment
- LO14. Communicate effectively, professionally, and reflectively with diverse patients, staff and the broader healthcare team
- LO15. Reflect on own development towards the competencies of a newly graduated dentist, as specified by the Australian Dental Council.
- LO16. Demonstrate understanding of how consent may be gained from patients who, through lack of mental capacity or their status as minors, may not be able to give valid consent.
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