Dental Law and Ethics PGCert

About the course

Providing unique opportunities to study dental care from ethical, legal and professional perspectives, this ground-breaking course has been designed for dentists, hygienists and other practicing dental professionals.

Designed to fit in with your current work schedule, it is a part-time course combining eight study days with online and self-directed learning.

You will be taught by a dedicated team of university and visiting staff who have wide-ranging legal and ethical expertise.

Why choose this course?

• Study the ethical challenges and dilemmas in dental practice, propose possible responses, and support these with well-argued rationales
• Explore tutor supported assessment tasks that are tailored in ways that allow you to deal with the real issues you encounter in your professional life
• Develop the ability to effectively appraise your own approach to practice, using independent or collaborative methods to identify and respond to your developmental needs
• Gain the capacity to independently and critically evaluate legal and ethical issues that are relevant to your own practice
• Benefit from a wide range of learning and teaching methods including small group workshops, micro teaching, action learning sets, cases studies, presentations, critical incident analysis, and individual and group work.

How will I be assessed?

This postgraduate course is open to individuals who have a first degree (or equivalent qualification or experience assessed by an interview) in dentistry, dental nursing and allied dental professions.

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree at Honours level, or equivalent. We will also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications or appropriate work experience.