BACHELOR OF DENTAL SURGERY (BDS)

Spheres

Learning Competency

Professionalism

·         Apply moral and ethical standards and comply with legal and regulatory requirements in the provision of dental care.

·         Ensure patient safety in all decisions and actions.

·         Recognize professional and individual scopes and limitations of practice.

·         Demonstrate empathy and caring behavior towards patients, their families, and members of the community.

·         Ensure that all actions focus on the patients’ best interests and respect patients’ dignity, rights and choices.

·         Protect patients’ privacy and confidentiality.

·          Maintain respectable professional boundaries.

·          Recognize and implement professional development for self and all members of the dental team.

Communication and Social Skills

·         Adopt and apply communication skills that allow building a teamwork approach to deliver oral healthcare.

·         Demonstrate interactive skills in mentoring and participating in activities within a health care team.

·         Document and share written and electronic information to optimize clinical decision-making and patient safety, ensuring confidentiality and privacy.

·         Present clear information to patients ensuring that they are advised of and understand the different treatment options including risks and benefits.

·         Communicate responsibly and professionally on all platforms of media

·         Communicate and engage patients, their families, and communities in relation to oral health.

·          Communicate clearly and effectively within the organizational hierarchy.

·          Respect and recognize cultural diversity and apply cultural competency in caring patients and their families and communities.

Health Promotion

·         Regularly evaluate the social, cultural, and environmental factors which contribute to changes in health or illness.

·         Apply the principles of health promotion strategies and disease prevention to promote oral and general health, quality of life, and wellbeing.

·         Collaborate with dental professional community and other health care professionals in the management and improvement of oral healthcare and health promotion for all patients.

·         Assess the risk factors, behaviors, and diseases that can have an impact on oral healthcare.

·         Design, implement and evaluate evidence-based health promotion programs.

·         Apply Caries Risk Assessment (CRA) on different age groups and design preventive programs.

·         Be creative in promoting oral health in the community using multiple platforms.

Scientific and Clinical Knowledge

·         Keep yourself abreast on the published clinical and basic science research and integrate this information to improve the oral health of the patient.

·         Apply the concept and research of biomedical, physical, and behavioral sciences in relation to oral health and disease.

·         Design and implement research in a scientific manner relevant to dentistry.

·         Apply the scientific basis, application, and risks of using ionizing radiation, dental materials and risk management and quality improvement.

·         Demonstrate and implement your knowledge to clinical skills in operative/conservative dentistry.

Demonstrate your foundation knowledge as relevant to clinical skills related to Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Oral Surgery, Orthodontics, Endodontics, Periodontics, Prosthodontics and Dental Public Health.

Patient-Centered Care

Clinical Information Gathering

·       Extensively perform and search for vital signs in an extra-oral and intra-oral examination and assessment for health, disease and abnormalities of the dentition, mouth, and associated structures.

·       Examine, identify and record the complaints, history of the present condition, medical, oral and social history of the patient.

·       Take, select, and interpret diagnostic images and other diagnostic procedures relevant to the patient’s condition.

Maintain accurate, consistent, legible, and synchronous records of the patient.

Diagnosis and Management Planning

·       Examine and formulate comprehensive, patient-centered, evidence-based oral health treatment plan.

·       Diagnose disease or abnormalities of the oral cavity and associated structures and identify conditions which require management and referral.

·       Recognize and identify the manifestations of conditions and how these and their management may affect the treatment of dental care.

·       Principles of preventive care should be made part of comprehensive treatment plan.

·       Ensure and record patient and family on the consent for treatment and their financial obligation.

Clinical Treatment and Evaluation

·       Identify and respond to the patient’s anxiety and pain related to the oral cavity and associated structures.

·       Evaluate and manage the periodontium with surgical and non-surgical treatment plans.

·       Perform surgical and non-surgical endodontic treatment of the pulp and periapical conditions.

·       Perform preventive therapeutic procedures to preserve the vitality of the pulp.

·       Utilize patient removable and/or fixed prostheses to rehabilitate, restore appearance and function, prevent injury, and stabilize the occlusion.

·       Apply principles of management of developmental or acquired occlusal abnormalities.

·       Manage painless and uncomplicated tooth extractions and perform minor oral surgical procedures.

·       Administer and/or prescribe pharmaceutical agents relevant to routine and specific dental practice.

·       Monitor the progress of the dental treatment and aftercare.

·       Prevent and manage medical and dental emergencies.

·       Implement universal infection control guidelines for all clinical procedures.

·       Manage restorative procedures that preserve tooth structure, replace defective tooth structure, maintain function, aesthetics, and promote soft and hard tissue health using direct or indirect methods.

·       Recognize and manage acute dentoalveolar and mucosal infection.

·       Manage patients from different age groups, medically compromised patients, and people of determination according to their needs.

·       Administer local anesthesia in the oral cavity as needed and manage potential complications.

·       Undertake an orthodontic assessment, including an indication of treatment need and interceptive orthodontics treatment.