Dental Therapy BSc (Hons)

This innovative programme has been specifically designed to facilitate the development of real world clinical, team working, and leadership skills, along with essential personal growth. The BSc programme embraces the University’s hallmarks of active learning, confidence, authentic assessment, and research-connected teaching, as well as having many notable and unique design elements. The programme shares a three year Collaborative Learning Core (CLC) with BDS students, where learning and collaborating in teams builds mutual respect and understanding of the varied roles of the dental team. Components within the programme are closely integrated and provide clear steps for students to develop, integrate and demonstrate their skills before building to the next level of clinical capability. Clinical experience commences in the first year of the programme and is underpinned by aligned medical and anatomical knowledge; communication skills; professionalism; ethics and clinical safety.