Medicine and Dentistry
• develop and demonstrate your competence in a critical appraisal of research and your skills in conducting a robust clinical audit. Programme outline Core modules: Pathophysiological Basis of Critical Illness • Supportive Care for Failing Organ Function • Care of the Unconscious Patient • Decision-Making, Communication and Ethics • Research and Audit Methodology • Special Patient Groups • Neurocritical Care and Trauma Management • Clinical Observership • Dissertation Assessment Each module will be assessed on the basis of written work, examination and presentations by students who have achieved all the required learning objectives of the module. Entry requirements Both UK and overseas doctors and nurses with a medical or nursing degree are eligible to apply, as are allied health professionals. You must have postgraduate experience of critical care medicine to enrol on the course and our admissions will be carefully assessed to ensure that they are able to meet the high academic standards required to successfully complete the course. For language requirements, please see the ‘international students’ section on page 124. Career opportunities For further details on the career opportunities that this course can provide, please see page 102. Further information For further information, please contact Dr Nina Ravic Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 3404 email: n.ravic@qmul.ac.uk
Postgraduate Diploma in Dental Clinical Sciences One year full-time Programme description If you are a dental graduate, this programme offers you a comprehensive grounding in five key training areas: basic sciences and their application to modern dental practice, the principles of clinical issues in dentistry, the principles of communication skills, the principles of professionalism, the principles of management and leadership. Two pathways are available to you and both provide strong foundations for continuing postgraduate study: • If you want to take the Membership of the Joint Dental Faculties professional examinations (MJDF) you should apply for the core pathway. • If you want both Membership of the Joint Dental Faculties professional examinations (MJDF) and the Overseas Registration Examination (ORE) or possible progression to a clinical MSc or MClinDent programme, we recommend that you take the enhanced pathway. Programme outline The syllabus is taught through lectures, seminars, tutorials and symposia. Your communication and IT skills are developed through weekly journal club reports and presentations on dental and clinical governance topics. You will be tutored in Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) and Structured Clinical Reasoning (SCR) exams using the outstanding facilities in our newly equipped state-of-the-art dental skills laboratory. All students on the course will observe current UK dental practice via clinics in Oral Medicine, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Periodontology, www.smd.qmul.ac.uk 35