2023/24 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MSc Dental Public Health
Programme code: | MSC-D/DPH | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Professor Gail Douglas/Dr Julia Csikar | Contact address: | g.v.a.douglas@leeds.ac.uk/j.l.csikar@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
A bachelor degree with 2:2 (hons) in a related subject or medical or dental degree. New graduates with limited or no work experience in a health-related area would be expected to have a 2.1 or above or a professional qualification with 3-5 years' work experience.
English requirements for candidates for whom English is not their first language:
IELTS: 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in each component
TOEFL: 600 (paper based) and 250 (computer based).
100 TOEFL iBT with minimum scores of 22 in listening, 24 in reading, 24 in speaking and 25 in writing.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Dentistry
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Dentistry
Programme specification:
The programme will benefit from the contribution of a group of internationally renowned tutors who have extensive experience of health services research and epidemiology as well as contributing to the delivery of dental public health services locally and nationally. These tutors include Professor Gail Douglas (International Caries Detections and Assessment System Foundation), and Dr John Beal (British Fluoride Society). In addition, there are guest tutors from around the world available to remotely contribute to the seminars: Alessandro Villa (Post Doc Fellow, Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NIH, USA).
There will also be direct involvement with Public Health England consultants and Specialists in teaching service related elements of the course and bringing to life the theoretical basis of DPH through working examples from around the UK.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
DSUR5022M | Research Methods Ethics and Statistics | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
DSUR5055M | Transferable Skills 1 | 10 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
DSUR5129M | Dental Public Health Research Project | 60 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
DSUR5130M | Principles of Dental Public Health | 35 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
NUFF5610M | Health Promotion | 15 credits | 1 Apr to 31 May | |
NUFF5675M | Principles of Public Health | 30 credits | 1 Nov to 31 Jan |
Optional modules:
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