Advanced General Dental Practice

All of the following requirements must be met by applicants:

Qualification and employment status

• A dental qualification acceptable to the College;
• Employment as a dentist in a dental practice, dental school, hospital, or community dental services environment.

Access to facilities and equipment

• Adequate clinical facilities and an appropriate selection of patients;
• Approved video equipment, as part of the monitoring process (advice on this will be given in the first Intensive Face-to-Face course);
• Access to an appropriate dental library.

Minimum computer specification

Windows

• Intel or AMD processor (1GHz or faster)
• At least 512 MB of RAM (at least 2GB RAM for Vista or Windows 7)
• Internet Explorer 7/8/9 (Windows 7 only), Firefox 3.x, 4 or Chrome 9,10
• Sun Java 5 or higher

Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 or 10.7

• Intel processor
• At least 512 MB of RAM
• Safari 4/5, Firefox 3.x, 4 or Chrome 9,10
• Apple Java 5 or higher

Current versions of the following free programs:

• Adobe Reader
• Real Player
• QuickTime
• Adobe Flash Player
• An office suite capable of reading and creating Word documents

Other requirements:

• USB headset with a microphone (or separate headphones and microphone)
• Webcam
• Internet connection - Broadband is preferable. Ideally with minimum speeds of 2Mbps down and 3Mbps up.
• A wired internet connection is preferable, so if you have wireless internet access, you may need to be able to connect your computer by cable to maintain a high-quality connection during tutorials.

• Javascript must be enabled
• Cookies must be enabled
• Popup windows must be enabled

Disclosure

• You will be required to declare any criminal convictions upon application.