Clinic Rules
- Specific rules for students attending clinical and pre-clinical areas are set out on notice boards.
- Students are permitted to carry out clinical work only on registered patients of Dental Health Services Victoria. This work must be approved and carried out under supervision and with the authority of the clinician* in charge of the patient.
- Clinical records, radiographs or any material relating to a patient's treatment or history are confidential and must not be removed from clinics by students.
- Patient records must be managed such that no other patient or student involved in direct treatment of that patient has access to the records.
- If using a patient record for assessment (e.g. patient presentation), you must obtain permission from the Undergraduate Clinical Manager to copy any part of the record and MUST ensure that all means of identifying the patient has been removed on that copy.
- Patient records and information are now controlled by strict Privacy Legislation Laws which incur severe penalties if breached.
- Instruments and clinical/laboratory materials associated with patient treatment or laboratory exercises (finished or unfinished) must not be taken out of pre-clinical or clinical areas without the permission of the appropriate staff in charge.
- Clinical record books, schedules of requirements or other records of a student's work must not be removed from the location of storage.
- Students may enter the theatre and ward areas of the Hospital only when rostered to do so or with the express permission of the duty clinician*.