Dental Public Health PGDip

Program Overview

This Postgraduate Diploma in Dental Public Health equips students to tackle complex oral health issues. It fosters critical awareness of current problems and emerging solutions, enhances research and evaluation skills, and explores inclusive oral health, vulnerability, and co-design. The program emphasizes reducing health inequalities and provides practical experience through research and service evaluation projects.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This Postgraduate Diploma in Dental Public Health is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills to tackle complex oral health issues in diverse communities. The program aims to:

• Develop critical awareness of current problems and emerging insights in dental public health, oral epidemiology, health promotion, and inclusive oral health.
• Enhance students' ability to evaluate methodologies, critique them, and propose new methods to advance dental public health practices and related fields, aiming to reduce oral health inequalities.
• Equip students with the ability to design and assess oral health surveys, understanding their strengths and limitations.
• Foster a critical understanding of inclusion health/oral health, vulnerability, and intersectionality in the context of Dental Public Health.
• Develop a critical understanding of co-design and co-production of oral health/health services/interventions.
• Explore the connection between evidence-based practice and healthcare, including navigation of the global evidence ecosystem.
• Provide knowledge of methods used in planning, delivering, and evaluating research and service evaluation projects within healthcare.

Teaching:

The course is delivered by a diverse team of experienced professionals, including:

• Consultants and Specialists in Dental Public Health and Public Health
• Senior academics
• Active dental public health researchers, including those from NHS Education for Scotland (NES)
The program utilizes various teaching methods, including:
• Workshops
• Guest lectures covering a wide range of related topics
• Contributions from visiting external speakers

Other:

• The program emphasizes the importance of reducing oral health inequalities.
• It aims to provide students with the necessary skills to plan, deliver, and evaluate effective oral health interventions.
• The course involves practical application of knowledge and skills through research and service evaluation projects.