D.Ch.Dent. Dental Surgery

Special Care Dentistry and Dental Public Health only.
Special Care Dentistry – The professional doctorate in Special Care Dentistry runs over three years, full time. It is possible for the course to be offered part-time, over five years. In their first year, in addition to modules in the Dublin Dental University Hospital, students follow selected modules as part of the MSc in Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, in the School of Psychology in University College Dublin. Clinical rotations take place in the Dublin Dental University Hospital and partner hospitals in Dublin. The teaching and learning will be apportioned broadly as follows: 60% clinical, 40% didactic. The didactic component will include a research dissertation. The total ECTS to be applied to this course is 270 credits of which 90 will be attributed to the research dissertation.

Dental Public Health  - The professional doctorate in Dental Public Health runs over three years, full time. It is possible for the course to be offered part-time, over five years.  The course has been designed to support the development of an experienced dentist into a dental leader, and role model capable of either managing a large, often complex regional or national dental service, or acting as a consultant to provide health service reviews, and to encourage the development of patient centred evidence based, efficient oral health services. The course is recognised for speciality training by the Dental Council of Ireland under the auspices of the relevant advisory committee of the Irish Committee for Specialist Training in Dentistry. In addition to a general module in biosciences, research and scientific methods and behavioural sciences, the Dublin Dental University Hospital students will follow selected modules in order to better understand the principles of DPH including the ability to complete a needs assessment and health equity audit of a public health funding service, develop an oral health strategy, evaluate an oral health service, and comprehensive evidence-based oral health promotion programme. The student will become competent at using; information technology skills to gather, analyse and present dental public health data; using dental service quality indicators to protect the public from risk associated with the delivery of dentistry.  Students will undertake a research project leading to a thesis, appraise existing research and develop, deliver and produce research and learn how to support the teaching of dental public at a specialist level.