AWFDCP: Recent Episodes
AWFDCP
The All Wales Faculty for Dental Care Professionals (AWFDCP – ‘The Faculty’) provides education, training & support for DCP's across Wales.
Here, we provide a series of easily accessible podcasts which partner our MOOC short courses.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Geriodontology MOOC. The Gwen am Byth project is a programme designed to improve the dental and oral health of people living in residential care homes. In this episode, the following will be discussed: journey of DCP's, skills required from workforce, and the future of Gwen am Byth.
Contributors: Paul Brocklehurst, Vicki Jones, Rosalyn Davies, Lisa Howells, Carolyn Joyce.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Geriodontology MOOC. The Gwen am Byth project is a programme designed to improve the dental and oral health of people living in residential care homes. In this episode, the following will be discussed: review of Gwen am Byth's objectives, explaining the assessment toolkit, and methods of implementation.
Contributors: Paul Brocklehurst, Vicki Jones, Rosalyn Davies, Lisa Howells, Carolyn Joyce.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Geriodontology MOOC. The Gwen am Byth project is a programme designed to improve the dental and oral health of people living in residential care homes. In this episode, the following will be discussed: the reasons for Gwen am Byth, and why Gwen am Byth is important for the delivery of oral health policy in Wales.
Contributors: Paul Brocklehurst, Vicki Jones, Rosalyn Davies, Lisa Howells, Carolyn Joyce.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Supervising Registrant MOOC. In this episode about managing failing students, the following is discussed: how to give feedback, managing the failing student, developing action plans.
Contributors: Fiona Sandom, Debbie Roberts.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Supervising Registrant MOOC. In this episode about facilitation of learning, the following is discussed: availability of learning opportunities, the student's personal learning aims & objectives/SMART, domains of learning, approaches to teaching and assessment of learning.
Contributors: Fiona Sandom, Debbie Roberts.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Supervising Registrant MOOC. In this episode about evaluating effective mentorship, the following is discussed: mentorship/supporting students in practice and defining what effective mentorship is.
Contributors: Fiona Sandom, Debbie Roberts.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Supervising Registrant MOOC. In this episode about assessment and competence, the following is discussed: assessment in theory versus assessment in practice, what is being valued in assessment, and continuous assessment & feed forward/feedback.
Contributors: Fiona Sandom, Debbie Roberts.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Supervising Registrant MOOC. In this episode about mentoring, the following is discussed: defining a mentor and mentoring, why mentoring is required, how to mentor, and what makes an effective clinical learning environment.
Contributors: Fiona Sandom, Debbie Roberts.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Supervising Registrant MOOC. In this episode about identifying learning in the workplace, the following is discussed: knowing the learner as an individual, learning approaches and styles, and applying learning theory in the dental context.
Contributors: Fiona Sandom, Debbie Roberts.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Supervising Registrant MOOC. In this introductory episode, the following is discussed: the background and requirements of the course, the differences with adult learning, supervising dental nursing students, and the principles for education in the clinical setting.
Contributors: Fiona Sandom, Debbie Roberts.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Geriodontology MOOC. In this episode on preventing disease, the following topics are discussed: how to prevent disease amongst older people, how dental nurses can help in the surgery, the importance of fluoride supplements, how we can motivate an elderly patient and/or their carer to change dietary habits.
Contributors: Paul Brocklehurst, Gerry McKenna, Georgios Tsakos & Fiona Ellwood.
This podcast is apart of the learning material for AWFDCP's Geriodontology MOOC. In this episode on Epidemiology, the following topics are discussed: defining the 'older patient', the state of oral health among older people, the access to oral health services, and the link between oral health and general health.
Contributors: Paul Brocklehurst, Gerry McKenna, Georgios Tsakos & Fiona Ellwood.