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DEN8290: NBDE Part 2 Review Spring 2021 Course Description: This is a rotating topics course. Students must complete 6 credits of elective courses during the 4 year curriculum. This elective course is to provide students with review study materials and practice exams towards successful completion of the NBDE Part 2. I. General Information Course Director: Course Director: Patricia Pereira Office: D4-6A Email: ppereira@dental.ufl.edu Phone: (352) 273-9346 Course Credits: 1 Semester: Spring (semester 8) Contributing Faculty Gail Childs Office: D3-30J & remote Email: gchilds@dental.ufl.edu Phone: (352) 273-5950 Support Staff Christina Ryan Office: D3-30H & remote Email: cryan@dental.ufl.edu Phone: (352) 273-5952
II. Course Goals
The goal of this course is to provide the student with review study materials and practice exams
for students to receive feedback on their knowledge gaps for continual study toward successful
completion of the NBDE Part 2.
III. Course Overview
This course will be conducted from January through April. Students will take an online
Diagnostic Skills exam (200) items in the first week of the course. For the following 12 weeks
students will self-generate weekly exams (minimum of 30 questions each) in topic areas
identified as learning gaps. Students will have access to Kaplan lecture notes and question
bank to complete this review course.
IV. Course Outline
1. Diagnostic Skills exam (online)
2. Weekly 30 question exams in topical areas identified in the Diagnostic Skills exam
and/or previous weekly exams over 12 weeks.
3. Optional: Mock National Dental Board - Part 2 Exam (1.5 days/synchronous)
V. Course Material
Kaplan lecture notes and question bank will be supplied.
VI. Course Objectives
Throughout this course students will be able to:
1. Identify knowledge gaps
2. Self-regulate exam practices and further study to address the knowledge gaps.
3. Build confidence in their cognitive knowledge base and testing abilities
VII. Course Competencies
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This course provides study materials for students to be successful in passing NBDE Part 2
which is required for the DMD degree and state licensure.VIII. Evaluation Students will receive a Satisfactory (S) grade in the course by completing the following assignments: ● Diagnostic Skills exam ● 12 Weekly exams (containing a minimum of 30 questions and passing by 75% or above) ● Mock INBDE exam Students will receive an Unsatisfactory (U) grade in the course for the following: ● Incomplete Diagnostic Skills exam ● Fewer than 12 weekly exams and scores below 75% ● Incomplete Mock NBDE Part 2 exam The Office of Academic Affairs will be tracking student progress using a Kaplan database. The Course Director will contact and meet with any student that is not making progress in their examination scores at 75% or above. Remediation: If a student were issued a “U” (Unsatisfactory) grade in this course, they would receive a grade change to Satisfactory (S) when they successfully complete the NBDE Part 2 exam. IX. Administrative Practices Administrative practices for all UFCD courses are universally applied. Exceptions to or deviations from these practices are stated in the individual syllabi by the course director. When not individually stated in the syllabus, course administrative practices default to those identified under "Course Policies" on the DMD Student Website: https://dental.ufl.edu/education/dmd-program/course-polices/ X. Grade Scale This course uses a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grade scale.
University of Florida College of Dentistry
Course Debriefing
DEN 6301C Fundamentals of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
January 8, 2021
Present: Dr. Gohel, L. Kanter, A. Shaikh, D. Durrett, H. Lenga, S. Veerjee, E. Carroll. C. Kocan, G. Childs, C. Ryan
Overall: 16 students completed course evaluations. Mean course evaluation scores on all items ranged from
4.75-4.88 on a 5 point scale.
Purpose: New Course Director, Dr. Anita Gohel. Additionally, this course was taught in a 3 week
condensed cycle with the General Pathology (on a 6 week condensed cycle) course.
Learning Environment
Adjectives in the students' course comments included; Great professor, caring, highly enthusiastic,
knowledgeable, “she made the material easy to understand!”, “drew from her personal experiences in
radiology, making it relevant to our careers”, always willing to explain, passionate and knowledgeable. She
valued and focused on the “important” material.
● Students present strongly agreed these statements reflected the learning environment in the course.
Course Content
● Lectures were well organized with a good balance of content and radiographic images. There were
multiple examples and slides of structures at macro and micro levels with clinical relevance.
● Students highly complimented Dr. Kashtwari’s lecture contributions in the course.
● Dr. Gohel offered extra sessions to guide students through difficult concepts (e.g. radiographic
angulation) with the opportunity to pose questions.
● One student reported that wrote more notes than any other course due to the course pacing and to
assist with her learning.
Teaching Methods
● Polleverywhere - students are frustrated by pop questions and then searching for their phones. As a
best practice faculty who use polling should announce its use at the start of class and include the QR
scanner code in the first slide so students are prepared when the questions are presented. Dr. Gohel
did include this and will be more intentional in preparing the students for polling.
● Dr. Gohel inquired about the activity with the hand-held devices. Students reported this did not work
well in Zoom and that most group projects goals are divided up to get the task done. Students recognized
equipment as an important part of practice and asked Dr. Gohel to consider pros/cons discussion and/or in
break out sessions.
Labs
● The labs were not offered during “stay at home orders”. They will be integrated in the DEN7805L
radiology rotation.
Evaluation
● Students felt the evaluations focused on the material taught.
Summary of Course Recommendations
● Students reported that many previous lectures included radiographs which they drew little from as
they did not have the foundation knowledge to interpret. Consider moving the course earlier and/or
1incorporating additional concepts of radiographic normal anatomy in Gross Anatomy, Dental Anatomy
and Occlusion, Operative and Cariology.
● This course could be offered in a half-semester time frame.
Summary of Administrative Recommendations
● Align evaluations to open close to the course ending when it does not span the entire semester.
Students are focusing on studying on final exams and fatigued at the end of the semester. Students
suggested using every class opportunity in-person or online to pause and have students take a few
minutes to complete GatorEvals.
● General Pathology (DEN6350) is the most challenging course in semester 3 and should extend over the
entire semester. Students will always prioritize this course study over other occurring.
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