Dental Public Health
Doctorate in Dental Surgery (Dental Public Health)
Full-Time (3 years) Part-Time (5 years)
The Doctorate level course has been designed to support the development of an experienced dentist into a dental leader and role model capable of managing a large complex regional or national dental service, or acting as a consultant to provide health service reviews, and to encourage the development of patient centred evidence based, efficient oral health services.
Areas covered include:
- Undertaking a needs assessment in dentistry
- Undertaking a health equity audit of a public health service
- Developing an oral health strategy
- Evaluating an oral health service
- Developing an oral health promotion programme
- Becoming competent at using information technology to gather, analyse and present dental public health data
- Using dental serve quality indicators to protect the public from risk associated with the delivery of dentistry
- Undertaking a Dental Public Health research project
- Appraising existing research
- Learning how to teach dental public health at a specialist level
The degree programme is divided into taught courses with a significant component of the course working with national health providers (including the Irish Health Service Executive and/or the UK National Health Service). A major dissertation is undertaken during the course.
Applications to the programme can be made here.
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin is the highest ranked University in Ireland.