Christmas arrives at South Bristol
Christmas has arrived in South Bristol. Showing excellent teamwork our students and staff got down to the task of putting up the tree. I think you’ll all agree they did a great job!
The Articulator
Art Exhibition 2017
The North Bristol Academy and the University Art in Medicine society are running an Art in Medicine competition for the third year running. This competition is open to all students within the Faculty of Health Sciences. Please see the information provided in the poster below. Why not do something artistic over the Christmas break!
New Student Support Team
We would like to introduce ourselves as the new Student Support Team for the BDS programme: Julie Weeks and Gill Woolerton are joining Angela Hague as Senior Tutors. This role is similar to that provided by the Pre-clinical and Clinical Deans in the past. We aim to work more flexibly to support the five years … Read more
Happy Halloween at Outreach
In exchange for their treats on Monday 31st October students at South Bristol composed a Trick or Treat oral health promotion message. Thank you Group 5.
Heidi assists at Outreach
Heidi is an Assistance dog. We are grateful to Heidi and her owner for allowing us to share this image. Heidi’s owner is a patient under the care of Tayla Baker, a year 5 dental student. For more information on companion animals see the Society for Companion Animal Studies (SCAS) website.
Longer Library opening hours
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
Undergraduate research volunteers required
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
A NICE day had by all!!
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
Welcome to our new undergraduates!
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
Bristol student wins HealthWatch prize!
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