Overview
- Degree awarded
- PG credit
- Duration
- 150 hours of verifiable CPD hours
- Entry requirements
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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.
- 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
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Course overview
- Learn how to anticipate and address barriers to change by implementing strategy into the delivery of appropriate and effective dental services.
- Achieve 150 verifiable CPD hours upon completion of the course.
- Learn when it suits you thanks to the web-based nature of this course.
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
- pgtaught.dentistry@manchester.ac.uk
- Website
- https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/cpd/subjects/dentistry/
- School/Faculty
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Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
Courses in related subject areas
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Entry requirements
Academic entry qualification overview
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.
English language
If you are a national of a recognised majority English-speaking country (or have an undergraduate degree or higher, including a PGDip, from a majority English-speaking country issued within the last 36 months) then you are not required to show evidence of English language proficiency.
Approved majority English-speaking countries outside of the UK are:
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia
- The Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Jamaica
- New Zealand
- St Kitts and Nevis
- St Lucia
- St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- USA
Students whose first language is not English require one of the following (with certification no more than 12 months old in all cases):
- IELTS level 7.0 overall with level 7.0 in reading and writing specifically;
- TOEFL minimum of 100 (Internet-based test) with 25 in reading and writing;
- Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English Grade B.
English language test validity
Application and selection
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.
Advice to applicants
Applicants should provide the following:
- a full current CV;
- a statement of purpose giving reasons for wishing to take the course;
- copies (not originals) of English language certification if your first language is not English - only IELTS, TOEFL or the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency are acceptable.
EU/international students should upload a copy of your current valid passport showing the photograph page with your application.
Evidence of citizenship of an EU country will be required for those claiming home student status.
Re-applications
Course details
Course description
Our Implementation Strategy in Dental Services CPD course looks at the opportunities for improvement within dental health services.
Dental problems continue to cause much morbidity and incur large treatment costs, despite effective preventative management being possible for most of these problems. In high income economies, historical patterns and complex vested interests have constrained change.
You will examine the ways in which professionals can anticipate and address barriers to change through the practical implementation of strategy into delivery of appropriate and effective dental services.
This course is aimed at clinicians, managers, commissioners, providers and researchers, as well as specialist registrars.
You will achieve 150 verifiable CPD hours upon completion of the course.
Teaching and learning
Teaching will be web-based with a high degree of student-led learning through interactive exercises to test understanding built into web-based teaching materials, and exercises and assignments involving seeking out, retrieving and reflecting upon information from a range of mainly web-based resources.
On average, you should expect to spend approximately 10 hours a week on the unit.
Coursework and assessment
You will submit two assessed assignments of 1,500 words mid-semester and 2,500 words at the end of the semester.
Student participation in the online discussion boards also forms part of the assessment for this unit.
Course unit list
The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
Title | Code | Credit rating | Mandatory/optional |
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Implementing Strategy in Dental Services | POPH76072 | 15 | Mandatory |
Disability support
Practical support and advice for current students and applicants is available from the Disability Advisory and Support Service .
Careers
Career opportunities
This course is designed to equip students for planning the delivery of dental services, including clinicians, managers, commissioners, providers and researchers.
Our course is also aimed at specialist registrars training for the speciality of Dental Public Health, and it is envisaged that it will be acknowledged as preparation for the Diploma in Dental Health of the Royal College of Surgeons.