Postgraduate dental programmes
Peninsula Dental School

Welcome to the continuing professional development courses for dental professionals run by the University of Plymouth, Peninsula Dental School.
We offer a range of high quality dental CPD courses for dental professionals, based upon teaching that we already provide in our popular MSc programmes. The teaching is delivered by highly experienced specialists and consultants, who are renowned nationally and internationally.
While continuing to work and study in practice, you will attend 20 days teaching in years 1 and 2. You will develop your skills in restorative dentistry, including:
Year 3 is the dissertation year, when you learn to apply the teaching that you will have received in searching for and appraising the dental literature. You will choose a research question relevant to your practice and investigate this, with support from the University team, finding and assessing evidence and forming robust conclusions.
Accredited by The Royal College of Surgeons of England, registered charity number 212808
MSc Restorative Dentistry student, Angharad Truman talks about her experiences on the programme
Similar to the MSc Restorative Dentistry, you can continue to work and study in practice and attend for 20 days teaching in years 1 and 2. You will develop your skills in oral surgery, including:
Year 3 is the dissertation year when you learn to apply the teaching that you will have received in searching for and appraising the dental literature. You will choose a research question relevant to your practice and investigate this, with support from the University team, finding and assessing evidence and forming robust conclusions.
While continuing to work and study in practice, you will attend 20 days teaching in years 1 and 2. You will develop your skills in periodontology, including:
Year 3 is the dissertation year, when you learn to apply the teaching that you will have received in searching for and appraising the dental literature. You will choose a research question relevant to your practice and investigate this, with support from the University team, finding and assessing evidence and forming robust conclusions.
Led by a team of consultants and specialists, this programme is structured to allow you to continue your current working commitments while studying for this postgraduate degree at an appropriate pace. Each module consists of 300 total learning hours – 80 hours of direct contact and 220 hours in own practice preparing cases, allowing the flexibility to be balanced with existing work commitments.
The programme will guide you in developing:
This MSc top-up programme is a collaboration between Peninsula Dental School and the Faculty of General Practice (UK) that allows holders of the FGDP (UK) Diploma in Restorative Dentistry to join the third and final year of our highly regarded MSc Restorative Dentistry programme.
Course details
The FGDP Diploma is recognised as potentially contributing 120 credits towards the University of Plymouth MSc in Restorative Dentistry.
Successful applicants attend two preparatory days in the autumn before joining the dissertation module commencing in January.
The dissertation runs over seven study days between January and September each year and provides the final 60 credits required to obtain the MSc.
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