Below you will find everything you need to successfully complete your competencies. Please review this page and ask a resident or attending if you have any questions!
Step 1) Inform the resident or attending that you are attempting to complete a competency. This must be done prior to beginning the appointment or the competency will not be valid.
Step 2) Review the medical and dental history thoroughly prior to seating your patient. If any part of the patient's history requires clarification sure you ask the patients guardian prior to beginning treatment. If this is a new patient please make sure to complete the Pediatric Medical History 2013 Form in Axium (this can be done by your student assistant).
Step 3) Perform a thorough examination and record your findings. This should include all of the following:
-Extraoral Examination
-Soft tissue Examination
-Orthodontic Evaluation
-Charting teeth present with existing restorations
-Identifying clinical decay
Step 4) Accurately prescribe and assess the necessary radiographs. Please click here for a review of the AAPD's recommendations for prescribing dental radiographs and do not forget ALARA principles.
Step 5) Formulate a treament plan for your patient. This must include a preventitive care plan. Input this treatment plan into Axium after it is reviewed by the resident or attending. Complete the informed consent form in Axium and include all necessary future treatment.
Step 6) Document your findings on Axium. The odontogram should be updated with existing restorations, dental caries, and existing dentition.
Step 7) Add a note using the approved note template. These can be copied and pasted from the axium mail sent by Ms Kathy Hansel. Another copy of the note templates can be found here.
Step 8) Inform the patient and parent of your findings and fill out a yellow appointment slip.
Step 9) Escort the patient and parent to the check out window.
Step 10) Complete the appropriate codes in Axium and ask the resident or attending to add your competency grade. This MUST be done the same day as the treatment!
*We are here to help, even when it is a competency. If you are unsure of anything please ask*
Step 1) Inform the resident or attending that you are attempting to complete a competency. This must be done prior to beginning the appointment or the competency will not be valid.
Step 2) Review the medical history, planned treatment and radiographs thoroughly prior to seating your patient. If any part of the patient's history requires clarification sure you ask the patients guardian prior to beginning treatment.
Step 3) Ensure that informed consent is in Axium and signed by the patients guardian.
Step 4) After seating the patient reexamine to confirm the treatment and obtain a start check from a resident or attending.
Step 5) Perform the procedure according to faculty supervision. Checks are typically obtained following preparation and restoration but may be necessary more often according to procedure. Do not dismiss the patient without faculty approval
Step 6) Complete all procedures performed in Axium and write up a progress notes using one of the approved note templates. These can be copied and pasted from the axium mail sent by Ms Kathy Hansel. Another copy of the note templates can be found here.
Step 7) Inform the patient and parent of necessary post-operative instructions and fill out a yellow appointment slip.
Step 8) Escort the patient and parent to the check out window.
Step 9) Complete the appropriate codes in Axium and ask the resident or attending to add your competency grade. This MUST be done the same day as the treatment!
*We are here to help, even when it is a competency. If you are unsure of anything please ask*
Before carrying out any operative work whether or not it is a competency please review the procedural outline either in the clinic manual or by clicking below.
Students are required to observe one knee-to-knee (“lap”) exam during their rotation.
As general practitioners are often the primary source of information for new families, this experience is designed to establish a sense of comfort with conducting an infant oral exam from a diagnostic standpoint, ease of handling the infant alongside a parent/caregiver, as well as facilitating appropriate anticipatory guidance discussion.
To input the Knee-To-Knee competency:
1) Log into axium and go to evaluations module
2) Select the Add button and click in the general evaluation window
3) Select Discipline- PEDO, Form-PEDKNE
4)Answer each of the 4 questions as they come up
5)Allow the attending or resident to enter their approval code