All students will be given the opportunity to complete a questionnaire at the end of the academic year. The purpose of this is to provide feedback which will help us to assess the course. During the Trinity term, students will sit the Fourth Year Clinical Examination. The regulations for this and other examinations are as indicated in the current Regulations for Degrees in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences booklet. It was considered that it would be beneficial if a proposition of the time spent in these components could be outside the School of Dentistry.
Sessions created for private study during the fourth year continue throughout the final year.
The aim of this component is to provide the student with experience of Community Dentistry as part of Community Health and Welfare. The objectives are to ensure that the dental graduate is capable of promoting communal effort to broaden the type and amount of dental health care for the population, and to widen students' views of the professional opportunities and challenges of Dentistry. The Health Care Team Health Education Dental Care for Priority Groups Organisation and Administration of Dental Services Students are allocated to Community Clinics for a two week block during the Hilary Term. At the end of this component of the course all students are required to provide a written report which will be considered as part of the Final Dental Examination. Attendance at Community Clinics is compulsory and the students Log Book must be signed by the Community Officer and returned with the written report.