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MSc - Master of Science
Clifton Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
This is a one-year, full-time degree programme aimed at qualified dental clinicians looking to develop competency in clinical oral medicine. It focuses on the recognition, investigation, diagnosis and management of patients presenting with common oral and maxillofacial diseases and will provide a sound grounding in the fundamental principles of UK specialist practice. It also considers and incorporates the basic principles of evidence-based medicine that are relevant to clinical and modern translational practice. Contemporary educational methods will be used to determine and monitor knowledge base, as well as using workplace-based assessments for clinical competency. You will be supervised by clinical and academic staff within an established and integrated specialist clinical training and educational environment. The clinical teaching will be delivered within the Oral Medicine Department at Bristol Dental Hospital whilst the classroom based teaching will be delivered within the Bristol Dental School. There will be continuous verbal feedback and support to help develop skills for individual reflection and self-assessment. There are high staff to student ratios to ensure a quality individual teaching experience during clinical activity. Working side by side with clinical experts and specialist clinical and academic trainees you will build a clinical portfolio. You will either undertake a scoping literature review of a selected topic relevant to Oral Medicine clinical practice, leading to the submission of a Dissertation, or compile and submit a Clinical Portfolio, documenting cases you have encountered in the Oral Medicine Consultant clinics and presenting detailed, evidence-based case reports supported by current literature.
This module aims to have knowledge of the range of disorders which affect the oral mucosa and the surrounding oro-facial tissues and how they are diagnosed and managed; to have knowledge of how systemic disease may manifest within the oral cavity and surrounding structures and how they are diagnosed and managed; to have knowledge to understanding of how systemic disease may impact the dental management of patients and the consequent modifications to such treatment that may be required; to have knowledge of evidence based medicine as applied to clinical oral medicine; to develop competencies around communication with patients within an oral medicine clinical setting.
The aims of the research project are to: Give the student guided experience in the planning and execution of projects (either literature review, audit or service evaluation); Enable the student to critically evaluate experimental data/ published papers; Expose the student to the processes by which scientific results are communicated and debated.
This module aims to acquire knowledge and develop competencies in the investigation and management of the more complex aspects of disorders which affect the oral mucosa and the surrounding oro-facial tissues; to acquire knowledge and develop competencies in the investigation and management of the more complex aspects of how systemic disease may manifest within the oral cavity and surrounding structures and how they are diagnosed and managed; to acquire knowledge and develop competencies in the investigation and management of the more complex aspects to understanding of how systemic disease may impact the dental management of patients and the consequent modifications to such treatment that may be required.
At the end of this unit students will be able to: Interpret numerical and graphical summaries of data; Understand the nature of sampling variation and the role of statistical inference in helping to quantify sampling variation draw conclusions from data. Accurately interpret the results of analyses based on the principles of hypothesis testing (p-values) and estimation (confidence intervals); Interpret the results from common regression models; Devise research questions and design effective studies/experiments; Offer a critical appraisal of the research methods elements of published scientific and clinical studies.
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