Course summary
Dental Public Health offers you the opportunity to enhance professional, clinical and academic knowledge alongside others from multi-disciplinary backgrounds around the world. The course can equip you with the understanding and skills to manage the competing demands, resource implications and expectations inherent in providing a 21st century public dental service. It will suit dental professionals or public health professionals who want to grow their knowledge, skills and commitment to develop equitable and fair dental health services. It includes tutors from outside the university environment and with specialist knowledge and experience in oral health protection and the management of dental services locally. The dental hospital provides outstanding facilities for education and patient care.
Modules
Compulsory modules: Transferable skills 1; core epidemiology; introduction to research methodology and ethics; statistical methods; dental public health research project; principles of dental public health; principles of public health (international); health promotion.
Assessment method
You’ll be assessed through a combination of in-course assessments, end of module written examination and an oral examination on your research dissertation.
How to apply
International applicants
IELTS 7.0 overall, with no less than 6.5 in any component.
Entry requirements
A bachelor degree with 2:2 (hons) in a related subject or medical or dental degree. New graduates with limited or no work experience in a health-related area would be expected to have a 2.1 or above, or a professional qualification with 3-5 years' work experience We welcome applications from graduates with a medical or dental degree.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Fees are listed on our website: https://courses.leeds.ac.uk/
Provider information
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9JT