Vote for your most inspiring lecturer – voting now open!

Here is your chance to vote for your most inspiring lecturer.  The Best of Bristol lectures is a university-sponsored scheme where students nominate their favourite lecturer, and the successful lecturers put on a lecture open to all students, staff and the general public.  It would be great to have a dental nominee this year, so … Read more

CHSE Teaching and Learning Conference

The Dental School was superbly represented at last month’s CHSE Teaching and Learning Conference. Held in the lovely surroundings of Engineer’s House there were a number of interesting talks, presentations and workshops. Head of School Professor Peter Robinson had this to say: “I was really proud of the School at last weeks CHSE Teaching and … Read more

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

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