Advanced General Dental Practice MSc/Postgraduate Diploma

Summary

The Advanced General Dental Practice Masters part-time programme caters for general dental practitioners and primary care dentists working in other fields, wishing to enhance clinical skills and knowledge.

Only a 10–15 minute walk from Birmingham New Street station and with excellent motorway, rail and bus links it is easy to get to the School of Dentistry which is situated in Birmingham City Centre and shares a site with the Birmingham Dental Hospital.

We are currently developing a Distance Learning version of this course. This would be a part-time course open to both UK/EU and International students. If you would be interested in being kept up to date with the developments of the course please email Natasha Nelson at n.l.nelson@bham.ac.uk with your details. We anticipate that this course will start running from February 2013.

Key facts

Type of Course: Taught, continuing professional development

Duration: Can be taken part-time over a period of up to 5 years

Start date: October

Entry requirements

A dental qualification registerable with the UK General Dental Council and satisfactory references.  We welcome applications from General Dental Practitioners and other areas of Primary Dental Care. You will need to be working in a practice or clinic where you will be seeing sufficient numbers of patients to enable you to write the case reports (n=6) on which some of the assessments are based.

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Standard English language requirements apply

IELTS 7.0 with no less than 6.5 in any band.

TOEFL - Internet based 100 overall with no less than 23 in any band. 

International students:

Please note this programme is only open to UK practising dentists.

Contact details

Professor Trevor Burke
Tel: +44 (0)121 466 5476

Email: f.j.t.burke@bham.ac.uk

How to apply

When clicking on the Apply Now button you will be directed to an application specifically designed for the programme you wish to apply for where you will create an account with the University application system and submit your application and supporting documents online. Further information regarding how to apply online can be found on the How to apply pages

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Fees and funding

For the most up-to-date information on fees, please contact the School directly or email sfo@contacts.bham.ac.uk
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Scholarships and studentships 
Any available are advertised on our website www.dentistry.bham.ac.uk  
 

Programme overview

This programme caters for general dental practitioners wishing to enhance their clinical skills and knowledge in areas of direct relevance to their practice, this will enable you to:  

  • improve the quality of care provided to patients
  • increase your insight and understanding, resulting in greater awareness of the management of patients 
  • provide a base for personal professional development

Additionally, the programme will provide contact between different dentists who are engaged in work in a similar field through group work.

Related links 

School of Dentistry website: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/dentistry/

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Modules

The modular structure includes compulsory core modules covering areas such as contemporary dental practice, new dental technologies and oral surgery/oral medicine.On completion of six modules, a postgraduate certificate can be awarded. You can then select from a series of clinically-focused modules to gain a postgraduate diploma (12 mpdules) and complete the Master’s qualification by undertaking two clinical portfolio case studies and a research audit or literature review project. The programme is taken part-time over a period of up to five years.

Compulsory Modules

Optional Modules - select 60 credits

Assessment

Methods of assessment for the General Dental Practice Masters course vary from module to module, but, where possible, these take the form of materials that may be used to enhance your practices, such as patient information leaflets. The assessments are transparent and are published in advance of the commencement of each module. Six modules include the presentation of short case reports (1500 words and six illustrations maximum) as part of their assessment.

On satisfactory completion of all modules, you will present two case reports (of up to 5000 words) and a research or audit project or literature review. There are no examinations, other than a final viva voce.

If you decide to complete the taught component but not the case reports and research/audit project you will be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced General Dental Practice.