Entry requirementsThis course is for existing dental practitioners who want to expand their range of patient management techniques. It enables you to treat patients who are unable to receive dental care with local analgesia alone.
Academic titleMSc/PgDip Conscious Sedation
Course descriptionWe developed the course in partnership with the South Yorkshire and East Midlands Medical and Dental Deanery.
You gain professional skills in patient assessment and delivering conscious sedation. This includes assessing and managing colleagues involved in providing conscious sedation.
Highly experienced, active sedation practitioners deliver your training. This ensures you can provide patients with the highest level of pain and anxiety relief during treatment, to current recognised standards.
Your sedation training and supervision takes place in a state-of-the-art training facility with modern simulation equipment, and in your own practice. This has the extra benefit of applying the sedation tutors’ expertise and experience to your own working environment.
You also learn through online distance learning study and part-time university attendance.
Associated careers
Successful graduates can offer treatment of a wider range to patients who may have previously required referral to secondary care facilities.
Course content
Postgraduate diploma modules
• research methods • physiology and pharmacology • inhalational and intravenous sedation • sedation training and clinical attachment • anxiety and pain management • clinical patient management