Unit name | Health sciences: Dental Biomaterials |
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Unit code | ORDS20007 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. Barbour |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Dental School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
Year 2 One element - Dental Biomaterials
Biomaterials are central to many processes in modern dentistry, and it is essential that dental students and qualified dentists have a thorough knowledge and understanding of both modern dental biomaterials, and the principles which lie behind the development and use of these and future biomaterials.
Aims:
Students should be able to:
Interactive lectures with live eAssessment and eLectures (8 each) Giant tutorials (2).
Laboratory practical sessions assessed by written reports (4) eTutorials (12).
Problem-based learning team project (8 weeks) assessed by oral presentation.
Summative:
End-of-element eAssessment examination. 60 min, range of question types. 70% of total Unit mark.
Four written reports on practical sessions. There is no word limit but a proforma is used to create the report, and detailed guidelines and the teachers’ marking guidelines are made available to the students in the interests of transparency. 20% of total Unit mark.
Problem-based learning project. Students work throughout term as a team of 4/5 to create an oral presentation on a subject. The presentation is given a team mark by the teacher and then marks are distributed among the students by the students themselves, hence it is part teacher assessed, part peer assessed. 10% of total Unit mark.
Formative:
Weekly 10 min progress tests using question styles and subject matter similar to that used in the exam.
Live eAssessments during interactive lectures using Turning Point eVoting handsets.
The recommended text is: Richard van Noort, Introduction to Dental Materials, Elsevier Publishing. 2nd or 3rd edition acceptable. 4th edition will be a significant improvement and is due out late 2012.