From Monday 19 September 2016, the University is increasing the opening hours of some of the larger libraries during evenings and weekends, and during busy times in the academic year. For the Dental School we hope this will help students who need out-of-hours access to Libraries, given their commitments in clinics during the day. We … Read more
Anna Dargue, Specialty Dentist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, is currently seeking BDS 4th and 5th year volunteers (and 3rd years from January) to take part in research for her MSc in Dental Education. Anna’s study, ‘To explore undergraduate views of collaborative learning in the clinical learning environment’ will ask clinical undergraduate students to complete … Read more
The NICE Evidence Search Champion Scheme has been operating in Bristol Dental School for the past 3 years. We are proud to take part in this national programme set up by NICE which aims to improve the routine use of evidence-based information by future healthcare professionals. Volunteer Year 2 dental students received bespoke training and … Read more
We would like to wish our new undergraduates a very warm welcome to Bristol Dental School! Last week saw 72 new students arrive with us and hopefully receive a very useful “Welcome Week”. There were a wide variety of introductory talks ranging from Head of School Professor Peter Robinson and Senior Tutor Dr Angela Hague, … Read more
We are delighted to announce that current Year 5 student Dylan Rakhra has been awarded runner up prize in the Medical and Dental students category of the HealthWatch student prize competition for critical appraisal of clinical research protocols. In this competition student’s research skills are tested by being asked to evaluate four hypothetical research protocols … Read more
2016 BDS graduate Roshni Patel recently presented a poster of her work at the conference of the Association of Dental Education, Europe (ADEE) held at the School of Dentistry, University of Barcelona. Her elective project was supervised by Miss Nikki Atack and entitled “The learning preferences of undergraduate dental students in the development of orthodontic clinical … Read more
Bristol Dental School uses an internally administered survey to collect these views and feed into our Annual Programme Review. Year 5 and those who graduated from Bristol Dental School in 2015 are asked to complete the survey. An emailed link to the “Course Experience Questionnaire” has been sent to the my.bristol.ac.uk addresses. To be able to … Read more
We are pleased to announce a 100% pass rate in the Diploma in Dental Hygiene this year. Seven student Dental Hygienists have qualified and are due to be starting their new careers in General Practice. We wish them every success in the future. Congratulations to the newly qualified Dental Hygienists: … Read more
The Hannover exchange programme signifies a long standing link between the cities of Bristol and Hannover in Germany. Every year a select group of dental students from each city will in turn visit the other for a one week stay, during which the students observe how their counterparts study and practice dentistry differently. The exchange … Read more
Monday 18th July saw our newly qualified students return for Prize Giving and Graduation. A brilliant day was had by all and all the photos from the Prize Giving ceremony are below.