About Australian dental schools
What’s the Difference Between Undergraduate- and Graduate-entry Dental Programs?
Undergraduate Entry: An undergraduate-entry dental program is one that students may apply to directly from high school, without any university studies, although you may still apply if you have completed or partially completed a university degree. JCU Dental School launched its dentistry program in 2009, and welcomed international students for the first time in the 2012 intake at the beautiful JCU Cairns campus. The JCU Dental School program accepts applicants directly from high school or from university studies.
UQ Dental School offers a 5-year, undergraduate-entry dental program, which allows students to enter directly from high school or after having partially or fully completed university studies.
Graduate Entry: A graduate-entry dental program is one that requires applicants to have completed a bachelor degree as part of the admissions requirement. The Melbourne Dental School and the Sydney Dental School recently introduced four-year, graduate-entry dental programs. Canadian applicants must complete an undergraduate degree, the MCAT or DAT, and undergraduate prerequisite subjects to be eligible for admission.
James Cook University Dental School
The James Cook University Dental School’s Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) is a broad-based program that includes all aspects of dental practice and aims to promote improved oral health care delivery, particularly to people living in rural, remote and tropical regions of Australia. The curriculum integrates the basic sciences with dental clinical sciences and preventative oral health strategies. JCU Dental School students will have early exposure to clinical practice, with an increasing proportion of the course dedicated to clinical skills in the later years.
Semester intake: February
Duration: 5 years
Application deadline: August 29, 2014
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University of Melbourne Dental School
The Melbourne Dental School offers the Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS), which incorporates all aspects related to the provision of advanced general dental care to patients as well as teaches students to prepare, develop, execute and write for publication a small research project.
Students will spend their entire final year in clinical settings including the planned Melbourne Dental School private dental clinic, community health centres and rural community clinics which will include provision of oral health care to the aboriginal community. Students will also learn how to run a private practice based on a small-business model.
Semester intake: February
Duration: 4 years
Application deadline: June 23, 2014 (Melbourne time). NOTE: All Melbourne DDS application documents must be at the OzTREKK office by Friday, June 20, 2014 in order for your complete application to be submitted on time.
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University of Queensland Dental School
The University of Queensland Dental School’s Bachelor of Dental Science (BDSc) students enter this program in second year, following one year of science at the university. The remaining four years of the program involve three years of applied dental science and one year of extramural clinical practice.
Clinical work begins in second year and is broadened in the third and fourth years of study. Each student is assigned patients and is then responsible for the dental care of these patients. The final year of study provides external clinical experience. Students will be rotated to a variety of state government health clinics including rural, school, hospital and community clinics.
Semester intake: February
Duration: 5 years
Application deadline: October 31, 2014
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University of Sydney Dental School
The University of Sydney Dental School’s Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) is a graduate-entry program that has been purposefully designed to adhere to the well-rounded course structure of the North American post-graduate model, but has also maintained the sophisticated clinical training for which the university has come to be renowned, giving students an applicable knowledge of dental health from the community to the laboratory.
The Sydney Dental School is about comprehensive learning, and embracing all the aspects of becoming a successful dentist. Sub-units integrate academic disciplines such as endodontics and orthodontics with the requisite training needed to evolve dental health knowledge into the highly specialized skills of a dental health professional.
Semester intake: February
Duration: 4 years
Application deadline: July 7, 2014 (10 a.m. Sydney time) NOTE: In order for your complete application to be submitted on time, all documents must be at the OzTREKK office by Friday, July 4, 2014.
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