Health Sciences and Social Services - Preventive Health
To empower a dedicated dental qualified learner with the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitude, the following process will be employed:
Data Capturing and Interpretation:
Designing a Treatment Plan:
Treatment Management and Implementation:
Empowerment:
Business Management:
By focusing on these key areas, the aim is to ensure that the dental qualified learner is fully equipped to provide high-quality care, promote oral health, and efficiently manage the business aspects of a dental practice.
The final assessment is an integrated process. It is expected of the learner to examine and assess the oral health status of a wide spectrum of patients to develop a comprehensive treatment plan, implement the treatment plan, and evaluate the outcome of the treatment. In order to qualify, it is expected of the learner to enhance and promote the total health of patients through oral health management. Oral health management applies to patients with oral pathoses, patients with special needs, and patients with oral manifestations of systemic disease. It further requires the provision of ongoing oral health care management. In the course of managing patient care, a competent practitioner should recognize the limitations of his/her expertise and refer patients appropriately for treatment while coordinating the patient's oral health care plan.
The following is a list of process outcomes, related to the improvement of the patient's health, to evaluate the competence of a learner:
The final assessment is integrated. It is expected of the learner to determine the oral health status of a community in a scientific way, to compile a community profile, and to use the information in developing strategies to improve or maintain their oral health status. To qualify, it is expected of the learner to enhance and promote the total health of a community through intersectoral cooperation within health care delivery, and by implementing and evaluating the outcome of the developed strategies. In the course of managing the development and implementation of strategies, a competent dental qualified learner should be able to develop and implement training qualifications to support such strategies.
Process outcomes to measure competence of the learner that relates to the improvement of the community's health:
The final assessment is integrated. It is expected of the learner to create and maintain an environment conducive to effective and sustainable service delivery in order to ensure the oral health of the individual patient and that of the community, as well as the survival of the practice. To qualify, it is expected of the learner to introduce and support business principles and administration procedures in the dental office that will ensure a caring and responsible environment for ethical practice. The Dentist must be able to plan and organize limited resources for successful implementation of health promotion and specific protection strategies within the framework prescribed by the national policy of the country.
Process outcomes to measure the competence of the learner that relates to management and administration:
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