Dental school signs collaboration agreement with fourth institution in China

Shen Yang Hospital of Stomatology is an independent faculty of the School of Stomatology, Dallan University, China. It is also the teaching hospital of Liao Ning Medical College and has five departments: prosthetics, orthodontics, endodontics, maxillofacial surgery and public health dentistry.

It has 249 clinical and teaching personnel, 67 of whom are chief clinicians or professors. The hospital cares for the dental needs of Shen Yang city, which is the sixth largest city in China with a population in excess of six million.

The collaboration with Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry will begin with Shen Yang Hospital of Stomatology either sending a member of staff to Plymouth to study for a PhD or a short term postdoctoral level researcher.

The arrangement with Shen Yang Hospital of Stomatology will join similar collaborations that Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry has implemented with the School of Stomatology at Capital Medical University (whose directors visited Plymouth in 2015 and which is sending its first masters student to Plymouth this March); the School of Stomatology, Shandong University; and the Second Hospital (School of Clinical Medicine), also Shandong University.