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

Student elective project presented at ADEE in Barcelona

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 Teaching Awards

At the recent Bristol Teaching Awards, Dr Alaa Daud and Mrs Geraldine Vines were shortlisted for their Outstanding Teaching and Outstanding Student support respectively.  Shortlisting was entirely related to the comments by our students, so there can be precious little that’s better than that.  Many congratulations to both! Huge congratulations also go to Dr Lesley … Read more

Cara Turner wins third prize in Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) Clinical Skills Competition

The Final Competition for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Dental Skills competition took place on the 10th March in the Scottish Capital. Dentsply support the College and provide materials for the competition. Entry is restricted to Final Year Students who have won the 16 regional competitions that took place at the end of … Read more

Biomaterials Prize Giving Ceremony

The annual second year Biomaterials Prize Giving Ceremony was held at lunchtime on 22nd February 2016. Heraeus Kulzer, one of the world’s leading dental companies, awarded prizes to the top three students in the Unit of Biomaterials, and provided pizza for the whole year. The prizes were presented by Phil Jones from Heraeus Kulzer. Prize … Read more