According to the Code:
Ethics and professionalism questions in the ADC written exam test your understanding of the Dental Board of Australia Code of Conduct — professional boundaries, mandatory reporting, delegation, and cultural safety. This exam-level vignette tests your ability to apply the Code to clinical scenarios.
A senior dentist in a group practice regularly criticises a junior associate's clinical decisions in front of patients and staff. The criticism is sometimes clinically valid but is delivered in a humiliating manner — phrases like 'any competent dentist would know this' and 'did they teach you nothing at dental school?' The junior dentist is demoralised but reluctant to speak up. The same senior dentist is later asked to assess the junior dentist's performance for their annual review. Despite the junior dentist performing competently in all clinical areas, the senior dentist intends to provide a negative assessment based on personal dislike. According to the Code:
- A. The assessment should reflect the senior dentist's overall impression of the junior, including interpersonal dynamics and professional compatibility, as these factors legitimately contribute to workplace performance evaluation
- B. The senior dentist may exercise professional judgement in weighting different aspects of performance and need not justify negative assessments, as assessor discretion is protected under the Code
- C. The assessment should be reviewed by the practice manager before being finalised, as the Code requires all assessments of junior practitioners to be countersigned by an independent third party
- D. The assessment must be honest, objective, and constructive — patients will be put at risk if an assessment describes as incompetent someone who is competent, or vice versa
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Section 10.3a requires assessors to be honest, objective, and constructive when assessing the performance of colleagues including students. It specifically warns that patients will be put at risk if an assessment describes as competent someone who is not — the inverse also applies. A dishonest negative assessment driven by personal dislike is neither objective nor constructive. Option A legitimises personal bias as a valid assessment factor. Option B fabricates unchecked assessor discretion. Option C fabricates a countersigning requirement.
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