For last year’s University Open Day the Dental School produced a number of bite-sized videos for prospective students to view and find out a little more about various areas of the School. Delivery of these videos was through Aurasma, an augmented reality style app. Attendees were able to use their mobile devices to scan a booklet of images … Read more
Hello! My name is Mansi Patel I am currently a third year Bristol dental student and the BDSA Conference Organiser for 2016-2017. My role is to organise a four-day conference in Spring 2017. Two of those days will comprise of educational as well as entertaining lectures on dentistry related topics. On the third day an … Read more
Most clinicians have heard of Cochrane reviews and understand the term as shorthand for a rigorous systematic review process applied to a clinical question. The equivalent process within medical education (a Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) review) also involves a team of reviewers who construct a research question, develop a protocol and then sift, analyse … Read more
The new senior students hatch at outreach…. …and at last find something Chris Burt isn’t good at! Aamir dominates the match despite his questionable grip on the bat…
Between April and summer 2016 we are running a display of Library materials relating to the History of Dentistry, and invite you to come and have a look – it is located in the foyer of the Medical Library and gives a small taste of the Medical History Collections in the Library archives. The University … Read more
Following this previous post of Group 1’s final SBCH rotation, Dr Lee just couldn’t put her iPad down. Here are some of the activities from the final days in South Bristol for Groups 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8, as well as the Dental Therapists. Farewell meals for Groups 2 and 8. The very happy … Read more
It seems rare that individuals at supposedly opposite ends of the dental school spectrum would meet. It is even rarer that three first year students get to spend an afternoon in conversation with the new Head of School. But that is exactly what Maria Mullerat-Pigem, Pouya Zohrabpour and I did, with coffee kindly paid for … Read more
Year 5 Group 1 celebrate their final rotation to Community Based Dental Teaching with party hats and a home made buffet lunch…. ….and how they looked on their very first rotation!