The Human Factors Approach
How do we best design interventions, procedures, cultures in dental workplaces to ensure we optimise both system performance and human wellbeing? Well first of all, it involves us gaining a …
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Designing for Safety
The Swiss Cheese Model Our understanding of human factors and situational awareness can be used to design and build in ‘fail-safes’, defences or processes into the system around us to …
Understanding Human Capabilities and Limitations
Before we go on and discuss Human Factors and its relevance to dentistry, we must first establish an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of humans. Watch the following video …
Let’s talk about non-technical skills, human factors, system performance and human wellbeing
In this section we’ll talk about Human Factors and non-technical skills. We hope that by the end of this section you will have a good understanding of the importance of …
What does paediatric dentistry involve?
To answer the question set out in the title, here, we’ll look at a specific example, Christine Park, who is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honourary Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry. …
The Facts About COVID-19
At the end of 2019 a new coronavirus infection was identified in Wuhan, China. The new virus is thought to have made the jump from animal species to humans and …
A Career in General Dental Practice and the Dental Team
The majority of the NHS dental workforce work in a General Practice setting. It’s where all dental graduates spend their first year after graduation working as Vocational Trainees (VT) like …
Dentistry and Leadership
Clinical academics often make good candidates for a variety of leadership roles. Now let’s think about how dentists can be involved in leadership and why they should be. Professor Bagg …
Welcome to Our Online Course on Becoming a Dentist
Welcome to Our Online Course on Becoming a Dentist This short video outlines the content of our online course and details the topics you will cover in Week 1 and …
Meet the Team
Before we begin the journey on our online course, let’s introduce you to the team who created the course and who will be on the journey with you. This course …
Congratulations you’ve completed our online course Becoming a Dentist!
Well done! You’ve reached the end of our online course, Becoming a Dentist. We hope we’ve given you enough information to make your decision about applying to Dental School and …
Dentistry Career Options
Career Options in Dentistry Graduation marks the end of your undergraduate dental education. Once you graduate you’ll be registered with the General Dental Council, our regulatory body. Your GDC registration …
Donning (putting on) and Doffing (taking off) Personal Protective Equipment
This short video describes the steps required for putting on and taking off and disposing of Personal Protective Equipment or PPE. This process is called donning and doffing. The PPE …
What will you study as a dental student?
A big part of learning to be a dentist is being taught the hands-on skills to examine a patient and carry out dental treatment. However, if this was all you …
How to apply to dental school
How to apply Application for Dental School in the UK is through the Universities and Colleges Application Service (UCAS), applicants can apply for up to four Dental Schools. Dentistry courses …