Orthodontic Principles

DENT60060 Orthodontic Principles 15 Full year Postgraduate Taught Level 6 Mohammad Owaise Sharif Unit coordinator School of Medical Sciences 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5 In the second year of the orthodontic course, students continue with a series of didactic teaching, one to one clinical teaching and treatment of a cohort of patients, the Northern Universities Consortium teaching days and information available on the national Virtual Learning Environment. Our own Central Learning Environment is used for specific interactive support using discussion boards and Wiki in addition to providing students with online links to high quality resource content e.g. the British Orthodontic Society guidelines.  In the second year of the orthodontic course, students continue with a series of didactic teaching, one to one clinical teaching and treatment of a cohort of patients, the Northern Universities Consortium teaching days and information available on the national Virtual Learning Environment. Our own Central Learning Environment is used for specific interactive support using discussion boards and Wiki in addition to providing students with online links to high quality resource content e.g. the British Orthodontic Society guidelines.  The unit aims to develop the content knowledge from the academic programme. Students through their one to one clinical teaching, the Northern Universities Consortium courses and personal study should have built a sound orthodontic knowledge base by the end of this year. Students will continue learning clinical skills as the patients under their care progress in treatment and students are expected to have chosen the area for their dissertation and be making progress collecting relevant data and information from the scientific literature.  1 Written exam 100% The principles of feedback are as follows:<ul style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <li>  Feedback should be provided in a timely manner that helps students understand (i) the marks or grades they have received for work submitted and (ii) how they might improve their performance in the future.</li> <li> Feedback should be as personal as possible to the individual student to enable reflection on individual skills and performance.</li> <li> Students have a responsibility to consider feedback given on their work, to seek to understand it, and to act on it.</li></ul> N Lectures 40 Seminars 30 Placement 700 0