This exciting programme is pioneering and patient-centered and delivered in a supportive and research-rich environment. You'll receive the highest level of core dental skills and knowledge needed for a hugely rewarding career as a healthcare professional. We offer you state-of-the art facilities and are committed to making you a dental practitioner with clinical skills of the highest order and a strong sense of social awareness. You will treat patients through partnership with the NHS Primary Care Trust in Devon and Cornwall. You’ll become familiar with a variety of clinical situations, and prepare for a future career path through solving clinical problems. You’ll also see how clinical medicine or research is practised in different social and cultural contexts in other parts of the South West, UK or the world, and further your experience through our elective opportunities. * Programme mapped against the General Dental Council’s guidance ‘Preparing for Practice’. * Treat patients through partnership with the NHS Primary Care Trust in Devon and Cornwall. * Engage directly with participants and service users in a unique and meaningful way with the Community Engagement Team. * Benefit from the state of the art facilities provided by established Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise (PDSE), a Community Interest Company (CIC). * Become familiar with a variety of clinical situations. * Prepare for a future career path through solving clinical problems. * Become competent at diagnosing disease and planning preventive care. * Choose your own areas of interest to study further. * Early clinical contact with a strong patient focus. * Gain the core dental knowledge and communication skills you need to practise as a competent and caring dentist. * Strong partnerships within the University.

In your first year, you'll learn the core scientific foundations of dentistry in a clinical context. You’ll explore the scientific basis of normal structure, function and behaviour, with a focus on dental health, prevention of dental disease and the underlying principles of personal and professional development. You will be introduced to the clinic and the Simulated Dental Learning Environment (SDLE) at an early stage, and gain insight into the importance of team working in dentistry as you integrate with other members of the team and work in small study groups. In your second year, you build on your foundations with common dental problems, as well as disease mechanisms being considered in much greater depth. In term one, training intensifies in the SDLE and you are prepared for your first own patient contact. Term two sees the introduction of face-to-face contact with patients in clinics, where you will be able to develop your communication skills under the close supervision of dental practitioners,bringing to life experience and skills gained in the SDLE. In your third year, the amount of time spent in clinics will increase to two days a week to continue your exposure to clinical material, to build upon existing skills and introduce additional topics where appropriate. One of the themes for years three and four is to consolidate the learning of medically-related issues for the safe practise of dentistry. You will be given an opportunity to learn about dentally relevant medical issues in patient-based demonstrations, hospital outpatient clinics, and accident and emergency departments. In your fourth year, clinical activity will expand to three days a week. For senior students, the work will embrace all of the aspects of dental care provision expected of a qualified dentist and will give you experience in advanced restorative techniques. You'll gain first-hand experience of the role and services provided by specialists in primary and secondary care, by spending time in specialist clinics such as restorative dentistry, oral surgery, oral diseases and orthodontics. The emphasis in your final year is on the practical implementation of what you have learnt in previous years and is the final preparation for dental practice. You will also become much more confident with clinical situations, healthcare teams and the principle of practice both in the NHS and in private practice. The modules shown for this course or programme are those being studied by current students, or expected new modules. Modules are subject to change depending on year of entry.

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15 October This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: A206

Institution code: P60

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Year 1

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The entry requirements below apply to you if you completed your GCE A levels, or equivalent qualifications, within five years of the start of the application cycle. Seven GCSEs are required at grades A-C/9-4, including English Language, Mathematics and either Single and Additional Science, or Biology and Chemistry. Applicants applying with overseas qualifications should contact the Admissions Team at meddent-admissions@plymouth.ac.uk prior to submitting an application through UCAS

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All teaching at our School is in English, so if English is not your first language and you do not have a GCSE or IGCSE pass at grade A in English language, you must have one of the following qualifications: • International English Language Testing System (IELTS) band 7.5 or above with at least 7.0 in each of the speaking and listening sections, taken within 12 months prior to entry • IB score of 6 in English B at the standard level

Student satisfaction : 55%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 74%

Go onto work and study: 89%

Channel Islands	9250.0	Year 1
England	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
EU	9250.0	Year 1

* Please note fees are subject to change - for all information about tuition fees, please visit our fees and funding pages. ** International fees, please visit our fees and funding pages. *** ‘Islands’ refers to fees for both the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

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