Master Dental Public Health

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Queen Mary, University of London

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• Entry requirements
  Entry requirements You should normally have a recognised degree and two years’ post-qualification full-time experience.
• Academic title
  MSc Dental Public Health
• Course description
  Programme description
  
  For dentists and other graduates wishing to pursue a career in dental public health, oral epidemiology and health promotion in either service or university settings, the programme offers supervised experience in the theory and practice of dental public health and the opportunity to develop specialist knowledge and skills. It can contribute to a three year specialist training programme in Dental Public Health. Programme completion offers eligibility to enter the Diploma in Dental Public Health examination of the Royal College of Surgeons (England).
  
  Programme outline
  
  The programme includes timetabled seminars, personal study and supervised research. All programme taught modules are considered core teaching, although the student has considerable choice when selecting a research topic. The taught modules’ (Science of Dental Public Health I and II, Skills of Dental Public Health I and II) content includes:
  
      * Oral health needs and demands assessment, including critically evaluating the dental literature, preparing scientific reports, familiarity with indices and determinants of oral disease, epidemiological principles and information sources
      * Information technology, including computer skills in data analysis, analysing epidemiological data and competencies in common computer software packages
      * Service planning and evaluation, including resource allocation, measuring service quality and conducting audits
      * Promoting oral health, including the principles, methods and limitations of prevention and oral health promotion, health determinants and preventive strategies
      * Research methodologies, both social science and clinical, and the application of scientific principles to research.
  
  Students are encouraged to develop appropriate key written, oral, group work and time management skills.
  
  Assessment
  
  The assessment procedures are:
  
      * Two written papers, in which three questions will be answered on each paper from a choice of six, with a weighting of 45 per cent towards the final grade
      * A project report, normally up to 20,000 words total excluding references and appendices, with a weighting of 30 per cent towards the final grade
      * A viva, in which the candidate may encounter questions from any part of the syllabus, with a weighting of 10 per cent towards the final grade
      * Two in-course assessment assignments. A planning exercise requires students to produce an appropriate oral health plan using data supplied. A critical review of a published paper requires using criteria appropriate to any type of epidemiology. The coursework has a weighting of 15 per cent towards the final grade

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