SDDM6421: Extramural and Advanced Clinical Practice 2

2026 unit information

This unit continues to provide 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 prevention-oriented 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 students to attend extended clinical placements in rural locations. In the second semester, there is a focus on developing confidence in the care of patients with advancing age, as well as core skills in understanding the legal and regulatory frameworks in which dentistry operates. The final portfolio submission encourages students to develop a personal action plan to accompany reflection on achievement of the professional competencies.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Medicine and Health

Details

Study level	Postgraduate
Academic unit	Discipline of Restorative and Reconstructive Dentistry
Credit points	24

Enrolment rules

Prerequisites: ?	SDDM5115 and SDDM5125 and SDDM5215 and SDDM5225 and SDDM5216 and SDDM5226 and SDDM6311 and SDDM6321 and SDDM6411
Corequisites: ?	None
Prohibitions: ?	None
Assumed knowledge: ?	None

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Session	MoA ?	Location	Outline ?
Semester 2 2026	Normal day	Westmead, Sydney	Outline unavailable

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