17/10/2025 – NIMDTA Dental Conference – Focus on Diagnosis (DCTs)

Course Information

Completion Time: 6 Hours

Venue: Mossley Mill, 19 Carnmoney Road North, Newtownabbey, BT36 5QA

Speakers: Various

Course Description

Conference with 2 parallel programmes “Focus on Diagnosis” and “Supporting Our Patients” – This course provides essential training in the recognition, prevention, and management of cardiopulmonary arrest, with a strong focus on early intervention and teamwork. Participants will learn to identify causes of deterioration, apply the ABCDE assessment approach, and perform high-quality CPR, defibrillation, and basic airway manoeuvres to support patient survival and recovery.

In addition to clinical skills, the course emphasizes the importance of non-technical competencies such as leadership, communication, and effective team dynamics during emergency situations. These skills are vital for coordinating care, making timely decisions, and ensuring a structured response to medical emergencies in any healthcare setting.

Course Aims

• Focus on Diagnosis Aim – To provide dental professionals with an opportunity to reflect on the process of patient diagnosis in Hospital Practice and discover techniques to assist them to do this more effectively.

Course Objectives

• Identify occlusal issues and how this impacts your patient diagnosis
• Explore the area of temporal mandibular disfunction and when to refer patients and what resources are available to assist patients.
• Identify when patients may be suffering from sleep disorders, how and when to refer.
• Explore using artificial intelligence tools to assist you within your practice.
• Review the use of cone beam imaging within dentistry
• Identify how to manage carious 6’s in general dental practice including the painful tooth.
• Address the issues of interfacing with laboratories and interactively identify clinicopathological biopsies, white/ red patches and oral malignancies.

Course Learning Content

Focus on Diagnosis” Learning content: This conference will be mainly lecture based giving an opportunity to reflect and grow in relation to how to diagnose and correctly refer patients within practice.

GDC Development Outcomes

• A B C D

Dietary Requirements

Please advise the Dental Team dental.nimdta@hscni.net if you have any dietary requirements.