Our comprehensive 5 day course prepares candidates for
Part 2 of the LDS 2 exam

Course structure:

Day 1 and Day 2: Unseen cases

  • Professionalism
  • Interpersonal, Communication and Social Skills
  • Clinical Information Gathering
    a) Obtaining and recording a comprehensive history of the patient’s medical, oral and dental state
  • Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
    a) Decision-making, clinical reasoning and judgment
    b) Education of patients and management of comprehensive primary care
    c) Oral medicine management
    d) Periodontal management
    e) Caries and endodontic management
    f) Surgical procedures
    g) Pain and anxiety management
    h) Restorative/prosthodontics management
    i) Orthodontic management
    j) Emergency treatment
  • Health Promotion
Course will include but not limited to:
( History taking, Investigations, Radiographic interpretation, Diagnosis, Treatment planning, Patient communication, Peer communication).

Day 3:

Morning session

Written OSCES:

  • Referral letters
  • Prescription writing
  • Health and Safety
  • Flap design 
  • Dental charting 
  • Periodontal investigations 
  • Radiographic reporting
  • Scope of practice
  • Denture design 

Afternoon session:

Medical emergency theory:

  • Basic life support
  • All possible medical emergencies
  • Asthma
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Adrenocortical insufficiency
  • Angina
  • Myocardial infarction
  • Epilepsy
  • Stroke
  • Choking
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Vasovagal syncope
  • Bleeding
  • Needlestick injury

Training on all available equipment:

  • BLS
  • Oxygen cylinder
  • Face mask
  • Spacer
  • Oropharyngeal airway
  • Intramuscular injection
  • Epipen/Anapen
  • All basic medication

Medical Emergency OSCE circuit practice.

Day 4:

Skilled OSCES

  • Dental Surveyor
  • Facebow transfer
  • Denture faults 
  • Surgical instruments 
  • Radiographic film holders
  • Intramuscular injection 
  • Periodontal supra and subgingival scaling 
  • BPE recording 
  • Handwashing
  • Waste disposal
  • Cephalometric tracing 
  • Dental charting
  • Dental extractions

Day 5:

Actor OSCES

Discussion of 50 Actor stations which covers:

(Ethical and legal principles, Principles of safe practice, Oral health / population-based healthcare, Peer communication, History taking , treatment planning)