First Year Semester I Batch 15

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Title of Course

DENTAL TERMINOLOGIES & PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE

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Course Code

DPK-101

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Institute/ College/ Department

SCHOOL OF DENTAL CARE PROFESSIONALS – DUHS

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Course Coordinator

Mr. ADNAN HUSSAIN

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Mode of Study

FULL TIME BLENDED LEARNING

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Duration

24 Weeks Semester (16 Weeks Teaching)

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Campus/ Location Office

OJHA CAMPUS/ SDCP Faculty Office (using DOES- LMS)

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Total Credit Hours

02   

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Accredited by

HEC

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Date of Commencement of course.

13/January/2020

(online commencement of classes from 30/3/2020)

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Date of Evaluation/ Review

Reviewed on 24^th April 2020 by the Principal SDCP

Evaluation will be performed by end of June 2020

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INTRODUCTION

The placement of this subject is in 1^st year, semester-I of BS-DCP that is a combined course for both Dental Hygiene and Dental Technology programs. The purpose of this course is to gain understanding and enhance vocabulary of dental terminology and overall professional knowledge by training through examples, context, engagement and multiple representations of content to the new learner.

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COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of this course, the students should be able to:

1.      Get familiarized with basic terminologies used in dental care studies.

2.      Utilize proper dental terms that describe oral anatomic structures in their academics and clinics.

3.      Identify, localize and be able to differentiate between different dental organs and prosthesis

4.      Based on knowledge imparted, understands the basics of the dental disease processes.

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ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

BS-DCP students enrolled in semester-I Dental Hygiene or Dental Technology Program

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COURSE REQUIREMENTS, RULES & REGULATIONS

Following are the expectations from the student attending the course:

Students attending this course synchronized with official ZOOM^® on-line teaching account must have adequate IT resources at home with better and undisturbed internet connectivity.

50% students’ attendance of online synchronized classes must be considered mandatory.

However, the recorded course along with lecture hand-outs will be available on the DOES Learning Management System (LMS) in a-synchronized form, so that those students who may face some internet connectivity issues during on-line synchronized teaching may not suffer and face the consequences of short of attendance.

Students attending synchronized lectures and taking assessments before closing data shall also be counted in the attendance

100% students’ participation will be considered in different discussion forums, chats, quizzes, class tests, project and assignments before their closing dates as part of internal evaluation.

However, students must gain at least an average score of 50% of the total formative assessment (internal evaluation= including participation in discussion forums, quizzes, class assessments, assignments and mid-term examination) to be eligible to sit for final examination

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COURSE PLAN (TOPIC WISE COURSE SCHEDULE)

Mode of delivery Each session will be Lecture based (30-40 min) followed by pictorial/ Virtual understanding of the terminologies through open discussion forums and chats related to their implications towards applications. Discussion forums will be open every fortnight and will remain open for 2 weeks

Day of Session: Monday    Timings: 10:30- 12:30

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COURSE ASSIGNMENTS

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ASSESSMENT/GRADING POLICY

Following is the detail of assessment criteria in the course, e.g. assignments, quizzes during the online teaching sessions, end-of-course exam, etc. and their weightage. It also contains how the students will be graded for different components of assessment, assessment methods that will be used during the course, e.g. Essay writing, MCQs, Short questions, etc.

Formative Assessment on LMS must be graded and be assigned 60% weightage of the Summative Assessment, whereas 40% may be assigned to the Final Examination conducted on LMS in the form of BCQs based Theory and online Viva based examination.

In order to provide flexibility to the students, they may be given options of two attempts to finish graded quizzes.

However, mid-term and class test must be taken as single attempt

Theory based final examination questions (to assess knowledge) will be prepared and peer reviewed by two at least examiners (internal and external)

Structured Viva of final examination (to assess attitude) will be conducted by two examiners (Internal & External)

The break-up is given as follows:

Regarding Grading Policy, it is proposed that student may be considered PASS or FAIL on the basis of 50% cut-off of the total marks scored.

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LEARNING RESOURCES

Following are the type of learning resources will be provided to students during the course:

1.                  Recommended Text (soft copy, if available)

2.                  Topic-wise Lectures on Power Point (Soft copy)

3.                  Lecture Hand-outs (Soft copy)

4.                  Reference Reading Material [for Self-Study Assignments (SSAs)]

5.                  Self-Study Assignments (SSAs) along with instructions to prepare them

6.                  I.T. generated (password protected) Zoom Classroom Access Links

7.                  I.T. generated (password protected) Access to DOES LMS

8.                  Lecture AV Recordings on LMS

9.                  Online Access to Digital Library (accessible text and reference books)

10.              Open discussion forums and feedback system on LMS

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COURSE EVALUATION

Students will be informed regarding how they will participate in evaluation of the course for future improvement.

Evaluation templates are already shared on the official website of DUHS shared by QEC. Vice Principals and Year Coordinators are responsible that these evaluations are conducted in a transparent way.

The QEC-DUHS shall evaluate the on-line mode of the program through:

1.                  Student Feedback Survey (at beginning and course completion),

2.                  Faculty/ Teachers Feedback Survey (at beginning and course completion) and

3.                  Course Evaluation Survey (at the on-line course completion)

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LIST OF COURSE FACULTY

Name

Email

Phone

MS.Sumer Mallick

SUMER.MALLICK@duhs.edu.pk

03412546884