Events and activities
Our regularly organised taster days and Year 10 summer schools offer informative talks about dentistry as a career, plus an insight into what it’s like to be a dental student.
Prospective Students also have the opportunity to practice placing a filling in a tooth cavity, demonstrate tooth brushing techniques and interpret dental x-rays with the help of dental students and staff. Feedback from both events is being used to help shape and further improve our future activities.
The Dental School is involved in other widening participation initiatives, including:
Destination Dentistry - Welcomes Year 12 students who are seriously considering making an application to study dentistry. Over three days of workshops, students learn interview and application techniques, practise clinical skills and visit a local clinical setting.
Into University (IU) which provides local learning centres where young people are inspired, plus mentoring and buddy opportunities.
Other programmes:
The University of Liverpool, in collaboration with local FE partners, has developed a Year Zero foundation programme for Home/EU students that leads to the Dentistry (A200) and Dental Therapy (B750) programmes.
The School of Dentistry also supports the Liverpool’s Scholars Programme and Realising Opportunities Group, which aim to encourage and assist applications from students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
I am proud that here in the School of Dentistry we have multiple schemes and mechanisms in place to ensure those with the capability to study in our school can find a pathway to do so
Vince Bissell - Dean of the School of Dentistry
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