• Clinical Evaluation
• Attendence
• Explantion of Letter Grades
• Critical Failures
• Grade Log
• Competency Tests

Objectives:

1. To provide relevant instructor feedback at each student/patient interaction.
2. To maintain accurate divisional records of student progress and achievement.

Each evaluation sheet will consist of:

1. Patient's name, chart number, date of treatment and student's name and student number.
2. Procedure code, teeth, and surfaces involved.
3. Instructor's signature, written letter grade: A, B, C, or F and instructor comments.

Criteria for Evaluation:

1. Professional appearance and demeanor of doctor, organization for planned procedure, and attention to principles of cleanliness/infection control/instruments.
2. Conceptual understanding of principles of diagnosis and treatment procedures.
3. Clinical judgement
4. Quality of treatment: techniques
5. Quality of treatment: behavior management
6. Effectiveness of doctor/patient and doctor/parent communication
7. Efficiency of treatment, e.g. appropriate time allotted and used for treatment, patients seen at appointed time, etc.

N.B.: Consideration of each area should relate to student's expected level of expertise. See the Clinical Evaluation Policy and the Clinical Requirements Point System .

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Attendence

1. Be punctual for clinic.� Each student is expected to begin work promptly at the start of each clinical session and remain until the end of each scheduled session whether he/she has a patient or not.� When two patients are assigned to you, dismiss the first patient promptly at the end of the first half of the period.� Do not keep the second patient waiting.� The clinic session will conclude exactly on time; instructors may leave the floor promptly.� An "incomplete" grade will be given for any treatment not checked with an instructor by that time.



2. Attendance will be taken ten minutes after clinic is scheduled to begin.



3. Students whose patients cancel or disappoint will be assigned walk-in patients or are to spend their time assisting fellow students.� A grade sheet must be submitted for �assistance� credit.� Students may not leave� the clinic floor before the clinical session ends without permission of an attending and notice of planned whereabouts. You can print the Request for Planned Absence here.

Explanation of Letter Grades:

A�������� =��������� Excellent or superior work

B���������=��������� Good work of quality expected of a student at that level

C���������=��������� Fair, passable work

C-�������=��������� Marginally passing work

F���������=��������� Clinically unacceptable work

Students are graded against a scale of expected progress for a student in our Pediatric Dentistry Predoctoral Program.� Clearly, more is expected of a student in their last semester than in their first, both in terms of quality and of efficiency.

Critical Failures:

Certain occurrences during treatment may require a grade of F. These include but are not limited to:

1. Serious break in "infection control": (e.g. use of contaminated instruments).



2. Possible injury to a patient cause by lack of attention to patient safety (e.g., patient left unsupervised in dental chair falls from chair or injures themselves with dental instruments left in the area, injudicious exposure of patient to ionizing radiation).



3. Poor judgement in determining need for radiograph exposure.



4. Obvious pathology not detected by student (e.g., proximal caries radiographically visible in dentin, occlusal caries as defined in sealant protocol contraindication section, cysts, fistula, etc.).� If a student is unsure whether or not a tooth is carious or whether a noted condition is pathologic in nature, consultation with the instructor should be initiated.� The need for this consultation is indicative of good clinical judgement and does not constitute failure.



5. Change of treatment plan without consultation with instructor (includes performing a pulpotomy on a tooth treatment planned for restoration without pulpotomy).� If a student believes pulp exposure may occur, consultation with instructor should be made before the exposure occurs.



6. Mechanical destruction of a sound tooth or a surface of the tooth adjacent to the tooth being treated.



7. Restoration clinically unacceptable:

1. cavo-surface margin open
2. amalgam fractured
3. restoration in traumatic occlusion
4. open interproximal embrasure where proximal contact previously existed
5. gingival overhang

Any student having questions regarding the grade or comments should address them to the faculty member at a time appropriate for private discussion.� All patient care discussions should be conducted at a discrete time and place, not in front of the patient.� If a problem arises which cannot be resolved between the student and the faculty member, the matter may be brought to the attention of the Division Director.� Faculty will submit the grade slips to the divisional office at the end of each clinical session.� Any student who finds themselves in possession of a signed grade slip should submit it to the divisional office as soon as possible.

Grade Log

Students have been provided with grade log sheet (attached).� This form will allow students to maintain their own record of the procedures performed in Pediatric Dentistry Clinical rotations. Faculty will not be responsible for late signatures.

Each grade log sheet will consists of:

1. Patient's name
2. Chart number
3. Procedure
4. Telephone number of the patient
5. Date of treatment
6. Faculty signature
7. Grade

Print the Grade Log and the Grade Sheet

Compentency Tests in Pediatric Dentistry

1. Procedures
   1. local anesthetic administration - block or infiltration
   2. preventive resin restoration
   
   
2. Requirements

1. Student should have at least 2 experiences in each category.�
   

   Demonstration or �pass� grade, are not acceptable as an "experience"

2. �Reading and Preparation (Reference)

   Syllabus- Preventive Resin Restoration and Sealants: Pages� 114&118
   

   Pediatric Dentistry Text- Fundamentals of Pediatric Dentistry- Chapter 12

3. Grading of Tests

   1. Competency exams will be graded by faculty who have been calibrated
   2. Different grade sheets and grading criteria will be used- please review the encl.
   3. Competency grade will account for 30% of the final clinical grade

   1. FINAL GRADE =70% CLINIC GRADE�� + 30% COMP. TEST

4. Deadlines

   Starting date:����������� September 2002
   

   Ending date:����������� December 2002

5. �Guidelines to schedule competency exams
   Competency Exam Schedule

   1. Each competency test must� be scheduled in the �Competency Schedule Book�.
   2. A maximum of 5 students can schedule tests on a given day.
   3. Bring your grade log at the time of scheduling your test date for proof of 2 experiences .
   4. A list of students taking the competency tests� will be submitted to faculty - review attached form.
   5. Students must select their patients and confirm appointments. We cannot be responsible for broken appointments.
   6. On the day of the test students should have supplies and instruments ready, as described in the syllabus.
   7. You must keep a record of the grade in your grade log.
   8. Faculty will ask questions for the didactic part of the tests. Please read the material on the reading list carefully.
   9. If the preventive resin restoration procedure is changed to an amalgam or crown due to the extent of the decay, the student will have to reschedule.