Griffith University

The content is quite fast paced, but you get to attend labs and workshops which are a great opportunity to get hands on with the material and work with peers. If given the opportunity I would highly recommend coming to Australia. It is an experience that will likely not come around again. Gold Coast is a bright and vibrant city with tons of fun things to do. There’s a great night life and the beaches are unbeatable. Griffith is a great university and the dentistry program has been great so far. It’s very easy to connect with the other Canadians in your cohort and start one big family.

Gold Coast is a bright and vibrant city with tons of fun things to do. There’s a great night life and the beaches are unbeatable. Griffith is a great university and the dentistry program has been great so far. It’s very easy to connect with the other Canadians in your cohort and start one big family. The content is quite fast paced, but you get to attend labs and workshops which are a great opportunity to get hands on with the material and work with peers. If given the opportunity I would highly recommend coming to Australia. It is an experience that will likely not come around again.

As a student at Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus dental school, there are certain aspects that I enjoy as well as some that aren’t the best. I love the high-quality education and training provided at Griffith University’s dental school. The comprehensive curriculum and experienced faculty contribute to a strong academic foundation, especially with cadavers in my anatomical and dental clinics.

I love the class sizes as everyone can get to know each other. I also love how connected all the years are connected to each other. I dislike that some clinicians are not open to allowing students to shadow procedures as that is quite important.

The state-of-the-art dental facilities and well-equipped clinics offer an excellent learning environment. Having access to the latest technology and equipment is a significant advantage. If the university encourages and supports dental research, I would appreciate the opportunity to engage in meaningful research projects, contributing to the field’s advancement.

The class size is good, and we get to ask 1 on 1 questions with instructors. The teaching methods are also effective, with online lectures and weekly labs. I dislike that the haptics sessions are only 4 times a year, as they were quite helpful. I like the services on campus and student support. I dislike that some areas on campus look old.

Some things I like are the fact that the campus is multicultural and has a variety of clubs to join. I like that the dental building was recently renovated, the small class sizes and close-knit environment within our cohort. I like the instructors as well, who are very professional and informative. Make connections with upper year students!

I like that they accepted me! Also, the campus is great, and they are very lenient with extending credit for prior study. My only beef is with some certain professors, and I’m pretty sure everyone has a similar experience! I like that we get started learning relevant materials right away. I wish we would practice hand skills more in the first year though. The dental sports team is awesome! I work for 30 an hour part time as a clinical assistant at an orthodontics clinic.

The campus is just really beautiful. It’s a drastic difference from back home in Calgary, because here it’s all open and there’s tons of greenery around. There’s also tons of sports facilities everywhere, like a huge track, multiple basketball courts, tennis nets, etc. and they’re all outdoors. The liveliness of it all just makes the degree I’m pursuing much more bearable. I don’t like how small the cohort is, because it’s everyone knows everyone and you’re around the same group of people all the time. It’s nice to go to other uni events and stuff to surround yourself with a larger variety of people. Just do it! I feel like everyone has their doubts & worries when it comes to such a big move, but at the end of the day I don’t think that anybody can ever be 100% certain about something like this. It’s a big move and there are definitely tons of uncertainties, but I feel like if you have to study/get a degree you might as well make a story out of it. 5+ or however many years will pass by regardless, it’s just up to you for how you want them to play out.

I’m doing a lot of self learning but I don’t mind it as I learn better that way any. The campus is beautiful and the facilities seem great. Class sizes – 81 people which is great as more one on one opportunities for learning. The course material – I feel that the first year dental professor has been recycling his slides from 5 years ago but is not the best. Definitely go! Look up some of the first year courses you can get credit for at Griffith like chemistry and anatomy and do them in Canada.

I like what I am learning about, they are all topics that I am very interested in. The university has a lot of nice facilities for learning that are available to students.

I love the anatomy learning facilities, medical services on campus, the relaxed feel, the passion that most of the faculty has for teaching, and the proximity to everything I need (gym, health care, public transit, housing, groceries, and more in walking distance). I slightly dislike the size of the university. Since Griffith is spread over many campuses, it feels quite quiet at times. There also isn’t much “school spirit” the way there is back in Canada.

I like the class size a lot. There are about 100 of us, with much of the cohort being Canadian (including my housemates), so I’ve gotten to know a lot of the cohort quite well, but there are still quite a few people I’m yet to talk to. The teaching methods in the university in general have been stellar with regard to anatomy courses, but can be lacking in a couple of courses, where lecturers intentionally make life unreasonably difficult. Most instructors are excellent, going above and beyond to supplement our learning, though a few do the bare minimum and still expect excellence from students. However, there are usually additional resources to get guidance outside of these lecturers (such as PASS, or tutorials), so it was manageable… we don’t really start on our hand skills until our second year. In first year we have “haptics” sessions, where we have virtual simulated drilling, but it isn’t really analogous to the simulation clinic in later years.

The location is amazing and so is the program. love the program bc it recognizes credits from Canadian uni’s

Griffith is super supportive of their students. We have had 11 sessions on studying smart, making sure we know who to go to for help, the various resources and support systems on available to us. In almost every one of our intro lectures, each instructor encourages us to send feedback. From my experience in school this genuine invitation for feedback is almost unheard of.

It is very obvious that Griffith really cares about their students. It’s also more obvious that Griffith values students who are not only intelligent, but also personable, empathetic and team-players. It is a very innovative take on medical curriculum and I can see how much effort the admin has put into the program.

I love my University and program; I love having the balance of studying and fun in the Gold Coast. My dental program provides state of the art facilities and the professors have been very helpful through the transition. I also got credited for many courses which saved me a lot of time and money.