Dental Law and Ethics

Entry requirements

Take a look at the latest entry requirement information on our website: https://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/guide-to-applying-to-uob/before-you-apply/entry-requirements/

Months of entry

October

Course content

This flexible, part-time course provides a unique opportunity to study dental care from ethical, legal and professional perspectives. It builds your professional knowledge of the concepts and theories of law and ethics, and how they are applied in practice. Encompassing both clinical and business settings, it provides the opportunity to examine your own practice, particularly in relation to enhancing patient care and delivering excellent service.

To take this course, you must have a relevant qualification in the field and be working in the profession.

Facilities and specialist equipment

• 24/7 access to our library services with 194,000 e-books and 192,000 e-journals
• Guided learning materials and e-learning resources on the University’s virtual learning platform

Your student experience

The course combines eight study days with online and self-directed learning.

Study the ethical challenges and dilemmas that occur in dental practice; propose possible responses; and support these with well-argued rationales.

Deliver tutor-supported assessment tasks tailored to allow you to deal with the real issues you encounter in your professional life.

Develop the ability to appraise your own approach to practice using independent or collaborative methods to identify and respond to your needs.

Benefit from a wide range of learning and teaching methods including small-group workshops; micro-teaching; case studies; critical-incident analysis; and action learning sets.

Our academic team are research active and have published widely in their fields, in journals including the British Dental Journal.

Benefit from being at a University with a successful track record of supporting those returning to study after long periods in the workplace or after a career break.

Our Bedford campus is a small, thriving academic community where academic staff get to know you well.

What will you study?

Studying our Dental Law and Ethics PgCert course will equip you with the basic and fundamental concepts as well as the contemporary and practical applications of legal and ethical knowledge relevant to dental care and practice. Our Dental Law in Practice unit will introduce you to aspects of law related to dental care and practice while enabling you to adopt a critical, analytical and reflective approach. Moreover, you will develop an awareness of the risks associated with legal issues and learn how this can be managed in a dental team. With a similar approach, our unit in Ethical Dental Practice will develop your knowledge of ethical issues in the provision of high-quality dental care. Furthermore, you will explore these ethical dilemmas in more depth to understand how it impacts patient care.

Careers

This course is designed to develop the skills and practices of dental care professionals with an interest in legal and ethical dental practice. You can enhance your legal role in dental practice (such as practice managers or clinical leads); indemnity organisations; primary care organisations; or acting as an expert witness to legal firms.

Information for international students

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Fees and funding

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