Oral Health & Disease in Populations (CPD) / Overview

Year of entry: 2025

Degree awarded
PG credit
Duration
150 hours of verifiable CPD
Entry requirements

No prior detailed knowledge of dentistry, the NHS or service planning is assumed. Additional support will ensure that students without this experience will not be disadvantaged in their ability to take and pass the unit.

Full entry requirements

How to apply

You should apply for this course by completing our online application form . See the Advice to applicants section for details of the supporting documents we require with your form.

Course options

Full-time Part-time Full-time distance learning Part-time distance learning
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Course overview

  • Develop a broad understanding of dental health issues and how they may be prevented or managed at a service and population level.
  • Achieve 150 verifiable CPD hours upon completion of the course.
  • Learn when it suits you thanks to the web-based nature of this course.
  • Study at a university ranked 5th in the UK and among the top 40 in the world for Dentistry (QS World University Rankings 2022).

Policy on additional costs

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

Contact details

School/Faculty
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
Contact name
Postgraduate Admissions Team
Telephone
0161 529 4577
Email
Website
https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/cpd/subjects/dentistry/
School/Faculty
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

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