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.
On Friday 17th and Saturday 18th June the University held the first of two Open Days this year. Members of the Dental School were out in force to provide prospective students with all the information they need ahead of applying. The bite-sized videos and augmented reality app Aurasma proved popular again and we’ve seen a lot of … Read more
We are pleased to announce that Emily Tucker has been elected as the new president of the University of Bristol Dental Students Society (UBDSS). A huge thanks goes to the outgoing president Theo Stennett for his hard work throughout the last year. Emily commented shortly after being elected: I feel incredibly honoured to be elected … Read more
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
Last week saw a feature on the new Oral Health Promotion Strategy live on the Made in Bristol TV station, with our very own Head of School Professor Peter Robinson being interviewed as part of it. To watch the video click on the image below and start from the 2 minutes 38 seconds mark.