Record Keeping
Keeping accurate patient records, while complying with GDPR, is an essential part of contemporary dental practice, and the whole dental team has a role to play.
They provide a means of defence in complaints, litigation and hearings, and are a regulatory requirement for
- GDC Standards for Dental Professionals
- NHS contractual obligation
- CQC requirement
This course takes you through all the details.
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Course Review: Record Keeping
Participant Feedback Overview
Participants consistently provided positive feedback on Dentaljuce's online CPD course, "Record Keeping," emphasising its clarity, practical relevance, and effectiveness in reinforcing essential knowledge about clinical documentation requirements.
Key Strengths
Participants particularly valued:
- Clear and Concise Content: The course was praised for its straightforward, concise delivery, making complex regulatory requirements easy to understand.
- Practical Relevance: Learners appreciated the course's practical approach, reinforcing best practices for accurate and comprehensive record keeping, critical for patient safety and legal compliance.
- Interactive Learning: The inclusion of regular questions and interactive elements effectively engaged participants and enhanced their understanding of the topic.
Specific Positive Comments from Participants
- "A clear & easy-to-follow reminder of our obligations & importance of record keeping."
- "An excellent module—just the right length, never felt bored! Good interactive questions."
- "This module was highly informative and well-structured, providing a clear understanding of accurate and compliant documentation."
- "Great overview and refresher—very useful."
- "Very concise summary of the requirements for record keeping, helpful and easy to follow."
- "This course thoroughly refreshed my knowledge, helping improve my clinical practice significantly."
- "The interactive style made it enjoyable and reinforced important points effectively."
Participants highlighted how beneficial the course was as a refresher, emphasising its immediate applicability to everyday practice.
Closed-Question Feedback Summary
- Met learning objectives: 95.4% strongly agree/agree
- Good quality: 95.1% strongly agree/agree
- Useful & relevant: 95.9% strongly agree/agree
- Engaging: 93.0% strongly agree/agree
- Pitched at right level: 92.7% strongly agree/agree
These results confirm strong participant satisfaction regarding the course's clarity, relevance, and educational value.
Suggestions for Improvement
Participants suggested that incorporating practical examples of high-quality and substandard records, including interactive case studies or mock scenarios, could further enhance understanding and engagement.
Overall Impression
Participants highly regarded the "Record Keeping" course as concise, clear, and highly relevant, significantly enhancing their competence in clinical documentation and understanding of regulatory requirements, thereby benefiting both professional practice and patient care.
Aim
The aim of the learning and teaching materials in this Dentaljuce module is to allow learners to develop their professional knowledge, understanding and competence in the field of clinical record keeping, in line with their identified personal learning requirements.
Course objective
- to update the dental professional with the rules and regulations regarding patient records.
Anticipated learning outcomes:
The learner will, with respect to the components that he or she has elected to study as listed below:- have knowledge of the legal aspects of record keeping, and the requirements of regulatory authorities.
- understand what constitutes a record.
- understand what is required for a "good" record, and what the features are of a bad one.
- understand entitlement to access patient records, and when they can be disposed.
- through achieving these outcomes, provide an improved level of service to their patients.
GDC Development Outcomes
This CPD will support the learner in meeting the following GDC Development Outcome(s): A, B, D.