Course Overview

The programme is taught using a blended approach. This approach uses face-to-face real time teaching alongside home learning to provide training in a collegiate, flexible, learning environment. The programme is made up of theoretical, practical, and clinical components. This mix of components is set to achieve an approximately 50:50 balance of theory and practice.  

Theoretical components are delivered using a mix of methods including lectures, seminars, tutorials, and e-learning. You will be part of a small cohort allowing you to form a close group, where peer-learning and support is encouraged and nurtured. Mandatory elements of the programme are delivered in an interdisciplinary environment, sharing learning with students from Nursing, Midwifery and Radiography programmes.  

Practical elements of the programme are taught using structured progression to ensure that you are competent, safe and supported. In the first year you will undertake essential training using clinical skills labs and phantom head facilities. Following this, you will begin a placement circuit in a range of primary and secondary care settings where you will learn and develop your clinical skills in an applied environment. These clinical placements continue throughout the duration of the programme.  

You will be supported by programme tutors throughout your learning. These tutors are the first point of contact for all academic, practical, and pastoral matters. In clinic, you will be assigned a clinical mentor who will be an existing dental registrant. This mentor is trained to facilitate you safely and thoroughly through the completion of your clinical learning portfolio. 

All elements of the programme are mapped to the requirements of the General Dental Council. These set out the minimum requirements for a ‘safe beginner’ with respect to clinical, communication, professional and management & leadership domains.  

General Eligibility

https://www.bangor.ac.uk/international/countries

Part Time Work Details

The 20 hours is total hours. It is not per job. If you hold multiple part-time jobs then the total hours of all the work you are doing added together

Language Requirement

• If you do not meet the English Language requirements to enter the International Incorporated Bachelors or the International Incorporated Masters, BUIC offers you a range of Pre-sessional English Programmes which you can take before you start these courses.

  If you have an IELTS of 5.0 (with no component below 4.5), you will be offered a 6-week Pre-sessional English course immediately preceding your entry to the IYZ.

  If you have an IELTS of 4.5 (with no component below 4.0), you will be offered a 12-week Pre-Sessional English course immediately preceding your entry to the IYZ.