Practical Summer Training

Practical Summer Training consists of five 120-hour-long training periods (or 160-hour-long in the Taiwanese pathway) to be completed at the end of each academic year concluding study years 1 to 4. The student should research training opportunities and apply to practical summer training on their own initiative.

For assistance with finding, applying or crediting summer training, please get in touch with practical training supervisor, Dr. Katarzyna Baksalary-Iżycka at baksalary@ump.edu.pl.

Each training component should be noted and certifiied in the student’s practical training booklet.

After the first year of studies in the Dentistry Program students are required to do 2 weeks of practical training in the framework of health protection (10 days x 6 hours) and 2 weeks in either a general hospital surgical ward, an internal diseases hospital ward or in a maxillo-facial surgery clinic (10 days x 6 hours).

Place of doing the training: institutions offering health services, sanitary-epidemiological stations.
Successful completion of practical training shall be confirmed by the manager of the institution at which the student performed the training (a signature in the student’s index and on the examination card).
Student’s absence at work can be excused only with a doctor’s leave. Practical training aims at gaining by the students’ knowledge, skills and social competence in terms of health protection. In order to obtain a credit for practical training students are obliged to fulfil necessary requirements according to the following curriculum, regarding:

1. Knowledge:

• gaining general knowledge about the structure and organization of the institution at which practical training was done
• acquainting with the act on medical activity of the institution
• familiarizing with the basic patient rights and with the role of the Ombudsman of Patient Rights
• familiarizing with Microsoft Office Excel and Word as well as office equipment
• gaining knowledge about legal acts in medical documentation
• familiarizing with the principles of health and safety at work at health protection institutions
• acquainting with the act on medical activity of the institution and gaining access to basic legal acts related to the functioning of the institution
  2. Skills:

• preparing a survey to research patient’s satisfaction and respect for his rights
• registering a patient in the system of electronic registration
• ability to use a computer in terms of text edition, statistical analysis, gathering and searching for data

– knowledge of the procedure of inspecting medical documentation, preparing reports on carried out inspections and archiving medical documents
– interpretation of currently binding legal acts concerning health and safety at work in relation to specific behaviour of employees and operating office equipment
– developing the skill of keeping medical documentation secret

3. Social competence:

– successful communication with the institution’s staff and group work
– gaining (at least to the basic extent) the ability to keep calm and work under stress and despite doubts
– developing the habit and skill of permanent deepening of one’s knowledge
– putting the patient’s wellness in the first place
– developing linguistic skills to ensure effective communication.

 

After the second year of studies in the Dentistry Program students are required to do 4 weeks of practical training (20 working ays x 8 hours) in a dental office in the role of dental nurse.

Any absence for health reasons requires the production of a doctor’s certificate. Absence longer than 1 week, for any reason, results in prolongation of practice time by the missed period of time.

Aims:

• to make the student aware of the full range of the dental nurses’ duties connected with the care of patients treated in the dental office,
• to provide assistance during treatment procedures and the sterilisation and maintenance of dental instruments and equipment
• to acquire practical knowledge of the rules concerning the registration of patients and medical documentation

• to become familiar with the working arrangement of the dental chair and instruments used in treatment.

Administrative aspects of the practice training should include:

1. Registration of patients and documentation of treatment,
2. Procedures connected with the referral of patients for laboratory tests/second opinion
3. The supply of materials, drugs, instruments and office/lab coats

Chairside activities of the dental nurse:

1. to learn different methods of sterilization: autoclave, antibacterial lamps for surgery use, etc.
2. to become familiar with the daily routine of antiseptic procedures concerning:

• hand- pieces
• dental instruments
• equipment
• dental chair

3. Preparation of the dental surgery for receiving patients,
4. Preparation of the patient for treatment,
5. Assistance during treatment; (delivery of instruments, dressing and filling materials, moisture control),
6. Cleaning the surgery after completion of treatment,

Preparation of instruments and patient records for the following day.

 

After the third year of studies in the Dentistry Program students are required to do 4 weeks of practical training (20 working days x 8 hours daily, in total 160 hours).

Absence can only be excused by formal sick leave and causes prolongation of the practical training to achieve the required number of hours.
Students are obliged to take periodical tests for carrier state and need for vaccination against hepatitis B.
The aim of the practice is to learn about dental surgery organisation and to improve the student’s theoretical and practical knowledge of conservative dentistry, dental prosthetics and dental surgery.
List of skills which the student has to master during her/his practical training:

1. Medical documentation in the dental surgery (also electronic version).
2. Knowledge of equipment and its preservation.
3. Learning instruments, their maintenance and storage.
4. Preparation of dental materials (aseptic approach).
5. Learning the sterilisation procedures used in the dental surgery and the relevant documentation.
6. Rules and methods relating local anaesthesia.
7. Rules relating to procedures where aseptic conditions are required.
8. Chair-side assisting in all dental procedures.
9. Oral hygiene instruction and dental plaque detection.
10. Giving post treatment instructions to the patient.
11. Pulp vitality testing
12. Performing, under the dentist’s supervision, the following procedures:

• stitch removal
• scaling and polishing
• fissure sealing, preventive varnish application, simple cavity preparation and filling
• checking and finishing restorations
• professional application of fluoride preparations (gels, high level F products) in high risk patients
• establishing the patient’s occlusion centric
• registering the occlusion.

 

After the fourth year of studies in the Dentistry Program students are required to do 4 weeks of practical training (20 working days of 8 hours daily, in total 160 hours) in a dental surgery.

Any absence for health reasons requires the production of a doctor’s certificate. Absence longer than 1 week, for any reason, results in prolongation of practice time by the missed period of time.

Aim of the practice is to acquaint students with the tasks, organisation and work in a dental surgery and to increase knowledge and practical skills in conservative dentistry, dental surgery, prosthetics etc. and to gain the practical skills required to teach patients the basis of oral hygiene.

The detailed practice program should include:

In the field of conservative dentistry

1. The ability to perform examination of the oral cavity
2. X-ray evaluation
3. Dental calculus removal
4. Cavity preparation and filling with different materials (amalgam, glass-ionomers, composite)
5. Dressing tooth cavity
6. Dental pulp extirpation
7. Root canal preparation and filling

In the field of dental surgery

1. Administration of local anaesthesia
2. Simple extraction
3. Assisting during minor surgical operations

In the field of prosthetics

1. Evaluation of oral cavity in respect to prosthetic reconstruction, of the natural dentition, missing teeth, anatomical and functional changes and occlusal abnormalities
2. Taking impressions with different types of impression materials
3. Prosthesis design
4. Determination of inter maxillary relationship and artificial teeth position
5. Correction of removable prosthesis

In the field of documentation and reporting

1. Learn basis of medical documentation
2. Acquiring knowledge of medical statistics

In the field of organization and administration

1. Familiarise the student with the organization of work in different places of dental care delivery.
2. Methods of patient registration
3. Organization of dental supplies and correct record keeping.