Latest flexible graduate programme now available
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The blended learning team at the Dental Institute is delighted to announce that its latest flexible graduate programme, an MSc in Aesthetic Dentistry, is now available for students to study. The course has been designed for busy dentists who wish to learn new and advanced techniques, whilst continuing to work in their practice in any country in the world. It is daughter of the highly popular MClinDent Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics programme, now in its 11th year.With over 20 years experience in distance and, more recently, online education, King's College London Dental Institute has pioneered distance learning in dentistry and currently provides graduate teaching for over 200 students in 40 countries.
The course takes a blended learning approach, with an annual residential course in London, course materials and twice monthly online support from tutors including access to videos showing dental techniques and e-library resources. The face-to-face courses are nine days in duration and cover the necessary practical training, taught by a panel of experts from the King’s College London faculty and leading international experts in the field. Examples of topics include composite restorations for aesthetic and wear cases, simple gingival and osseous procedures through to managing the occlusion and implant aesthetics.
The programme has been oversubscribed and dentists fortunate to get a place for January 2010 will be delighted to be able to access the content now, as the content has been launched ahead of schedule. Welcome tutorials will be running online in January, hands-on training in February and March with free supporting materials, which will be shipped to their practice following the face-to-face courses. Expert lead tutor groups will be set up in different time zones to provide regular advice and support.
Further details about this course, and other courses taught by blended learning at King’s College London Dental Institute, can be found here: www.kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/pg/distance/
Notes to editors
King’s College London Dental Institute
The King’s College London Dental Institute is the largest dental academic centre in the UK. We train a quarter of all dentists in the UK and with our innovative approach to online learning provide professional training to dentists from 40 countries world-wide. Our excellence in teaching and research is reflected by top ratings in the last QAA and RAE reviews. Our dynamic multidisciplinary approach to both teaching and research is demonstrated in pioneering work ranging from craniofacial biology through to clinical service provision and innovations in dental education.
King's College London
King's College London is one of the top 25 universities in the world (Times Higher Education 2009) and the fourth oldest in England. A research-led university based in the heart of London, King's has more than 21,000 students from nearly 140 countries, and more than 5,700 employees. King's is in the second phase of a £1 billion redevelopment programme, which is transforming its estate.
King's has an outstanding reputation for providing world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise for British universities, 23 departments were ranked in the top quartile of British universities; over half of our academic staff work in departments that are in the top 10 per cent in the UK in their field and can thus be classed as world leading. The College is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of nearly £450 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar. It is the largest centre for the education of healthcare professionals in Europe; no university has more Medical Research Council Centres.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
Posted on 17 December 2009
The course takes a blended learning approach, with an annual residential course in London, course materials and twice monthly online support from tutors including access to videos showing dental techniques and e-library resources. The face-to-face courses are nine days in duration and cover the necessary practical training, taught by a panel of experts from the King’s College London faculty and leading international experts in the field. Examples of topics include composite restorations for aesthetic and wear cases, simple gingival and osseous procedures through to managing the occlusion and implant aesthetics.
The programme has been oversubscribed and dentists fortunate to get a place for January 2010 will be delighted to be able to access the content now, as the content has been launched ahead of schedule. Welcome tutorials will be running online in January, hands-on training in February and March with free supporting materials, which will be shipped to their practice following the face-to-face courses. Expert lead tutor groups will be set up in different time zones to provide regular advice and support.
Further details about this course, and other courses taught by blended learning at King’s College London Dental Institute, can be found here: www.kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/pg/distance/
Notes to editors
King’s College London Dental Institute
The King’s College London Dental Institute is the largest dental academic centre in the UK. We train a quarter of all dentists in the UK and with our innovative approach to online learning provide professional training to dentists from 40 countries world-wide. Our excellence in teaching and research is reflected by top ratings in the last QAA and RAE reviews. Our dynamic multidisciplinary approach to both teaching and research is demonstrated in pioneering work ranging from craniofacial biology through to clinical service provision and innovations in dental education.
King's College London
King's College London is one of the top 25 universities in the world (Times Higher Education 2009) and the fourth oldest in England. A research-led university based in the heart of London, King's has more than 21,000 students from nearly 140 countries, and more than 5,700 employees. King's is in the second phase of a £1 billion redevelopment programme, which is transforming its estate.
King's has an outstanding reputation for providing world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise for British universities, 23 departments were ranked in the top quartile of British universities; over half of our academic staff work in departments that are in the top 10 per cent in the UK in their field and can thus be classed as world leading. The College is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of nearly £450 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar. It is the largest centre for the education of healthcare professionals in Europe; no university has more Medical Research Council Centres.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
Posted on 17 December 2009