Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS)
Clinical Practice
Both years 3 & 4 of the BDS degree are devoted to furthering your clinical experience and applying what you've learnt to the realities of dental practice. Throughout the degree you'll also enhance your managerial and leadership abilities by helping and advising junior students with their clinical work and treatment planning.
Within year 3, you'll consolidate your understanding of safe dental practice and work in hospital outpatient clinics and accident and emergency departments.
In year 4, your clinical practice will expand to 4 days per week and include many aspects of dental care provision, including:
- Advanced restorative techniques
- Oral surgery
- Oral diseases
- Orthodontics
Years 3 and 4 give you an excellent opportunity to get hands-on experience of the roles and services provided by specialists in primary and secondary care.
Features
- Enquiry-based learning (EBL)
- Plenary sessions
- Self-directed learning (SDL)
- Life Sciences Resource Centre (LSRC)
- Clinical Skills Resource Centre (CSRC)
- Clinical practice experience
- Clinical & communication skills
- Applied assessments
- Special Study Units (SSUs)
- Simulated Dental Learning Environment
- e-Learning
- Academic and pastoral tutors
- Dental Community
