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Dental Outreach Collaboration in Scotland: Enhancing Student Experiences

Explore the collaborative dental outreach initiatives between Dundee, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, improving student learning and clinical experiences in different locations. Gain insights into the program's structure, staff composition, quality assurance, and student interactions. Discover how peer teaching and shared clinics benefit dental education in Scotland.

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Dental Outreach Collaboration in Scotland: Enhancing Student Experiences

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  1. The View from Dundee, with a Glasgow/Aberdeen Collaboration Andrew Hall

  2. Inverness (2008) Aberdeen (2006) Arbroath (2006) Dundee KX (2008) Perth (2010) St Andrews (2009) Cupar (2008)

  3. Local Outreach (day visits) • Dundee Kings Cross • 2 miles 4 chairs • Arbroath • 15 miles 4 chairs • St Andrews • 20 miles 4 chairs • Cupar • 20 miles 4 chairs • Perth • 25 miles 5 chairs

  4. Distance Outreach (week blocks) • Inverness • 120 miles 6 chairs • Aberdeen • 70 miles 8 chairs DUNDEE Edinburgh Glasgow

  5. Summary stats 2009 • 39 outreach chairs • 65 students • 32 weeks (plus 6 weeks 4th year) • Av BDS student experience = 64 days (12.5 weeks) • Av Therapy student experience = 38 days (8 weeks)

  6. Basic facilities • Chair, light, LDU, computer etc • Access to radiology equipment • No paper-based notes • Mostly digital radiography

  7. From the small….. Kings Cross Dundee

  8. To a bit bigger…… Inverness

  9. Use of IT for clinical work

  10. Use of IT for academic work

  11. How much work do students do? June – December 2008

  12. How is the work graded?

  13. SDS Staff Senior dental officers Locum staff University staff A Hall (weekly) B Watt (daily – admin) WP Saunders (twice) JR Radford (weekly) Who works there?

  14. Why no University staff? • Too busy • Too far away • Need additional contract • Need Occ Health Clearance (and injections) • Don’t want to be away from home • Nothing to do with me – but they will have to do it the Dundee way • I can’t do that type of clinical work x

  15. Quality assurance • Student questionnaires • Staff questionnaires • Patient questionnaires • National Outreach Days (pan Scotland) • It’s our turn next • Dundee Clinical outreach days

  16. Dundee Clinical Days

  17. Working with other schools • Good links between Dundee and Glasgow and Aberdeen • Many staff have worked in at least two institutions, some in all three. • Familiarity with teaching methods and clinical teaching

  18. Teaching policies Glasgow 2000 Dundee 2008

  19. Helping each other out • Outreach / Clinical dentistry in Scotland • Not Glasgow vs Dundee vs Aberdeen • 2008-2009 Glasgow have a big year and insufficient Outreach available • 2009-2010 Dundee have a big year • Aberdeen need clinical facilities before the new school building opens

  20. Inverness

  21. Inverness + UHI • 14 chairs • 6 BDS and 8 BSc (Dental therapy with UHI) • Therapists don’t start clinic until Jan 09 • NHS Highland has huge access problems • Sept 08 - Dec 08 • 12 BDS students (6 Glasgow, 6 Dundee) • Jan 09 – May 09 • 6 BDS students (Glasgow) • Sept 09 – • 6 BDS students (Dundee)

  22. B&B (£26pppn) 3 eggs max at breakfast

  23. Dundee & Glasgow on the same clinic • Start with 6 chairs • Students in pairs – 1 Dundee and 1 Glasgow • Taught different things • Different strengths • Peer teaching (psst …. try it this way!) • Develop to 12 chairs • Dundee side and Glasgow side • Some social interaction • Glasgow there for more time than Dundee

  24. Dundee & Glasgow on the same clinic !!!!! • Benefits • Genuine student interaction • Keen to demonstrate what they know • Easier to learn from a fellow student • Problems • Outreach staff are ‘nice’ • Academic staff – less so • More sensitivity is required when teaching students from another school. • Easy to be critical of what students say

  25. Dundee and Aberdeen • Dundee Outreach clinic at Aberdeen • 1st yr BDS Aberdeen with 5th yr BDS Dundee • Good peer teaching • Too many students at Aberdeen (8 chairs) • 8 Dundee students (+ 6 from Inverness Jan 08) • 2 Dundee Therapy students • 8 Aberdeen BDS students • 24 STUDENTS IN AN 8 CHAIR CLINIC

  26. Collaboration is good …but it should be planned rather than a necessity …dental students don’t need more than 3 eggs for breakfast

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