Postgraduate Course: Introduction to dental clinical photography (DENT11154)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Clinical Sciences | 
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
 
| Course type | Online Distance Learning | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 10 | 
ECTS Credits | 5 | 
 
 
| Summary | This course is designed to introduce the postgraduate students to the skills required to record good quality intra-oral and extra-oral clinical images. It will include the selection and setting up of camera equipment and the saving and digital manipulation of images. | 
 
| Course description | 
    
    The broad aim of this course is to provide skills coaching aimed at the specific skill of dental clinical photography. A series of recorded lectures and demonstrations accompanied by learning tasks will be used to help students develop the necessary skills.
    
    
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Quota:  None | 
 
| Course Start | 
Flexible | 
 
Timetable  | 
	
Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
100
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 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
98 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
Contribution to tutor-led discussion, group projects and reflective writing 15% 
Written assignment including a set of images 85% | 
 
| Feedback | 
Students receive informal feedback/ feed forward on a weekly basis from their on-line tutor. 
Students receive formal feedback at the end of each semester based on assessed coursework and written assignments. | 
 
| No Exam Information | 
 
Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - Have confidence in using a clinical camera and be able to record a set of good quality images of a patient and save them in the patient record.
 - Critically assess the quality of clinical images and use this skill to improve the quality of images recorded in their own clinic.
 - Explain the process of storing and using patient images and use this knowledge to gain patient consent for recording clinical images.
 - Have basic knowledge of image manipulation and be able to re-size and insert them in a document or other media.
 
     
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Reading List 
| The course reading list is provided via a series of links to electronic resources within the University of Edinburgh on-line library. |   
 
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
Graduate attributes -  technical and practical skills 
This course should provide the skills necessary to: 
Be able to select and set up a camera to take good quality intra-oral and extra-oral images. 
Be able to save, edit and insert these images in appropriate patient records. 
Be self-critical in assessing the quality of images produced. | 
 
| Keywords | dental photography,image manipulation,clinical photography,skills | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Oonagh Lawrie 
Tel: (0131) 536 3974 
Email:  | 
Course secretary | Miss Jennifer Allison 
Tel: 0131 536 3975 
Email:  | 
   
 
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