Respected course

I recently completed an MSc in Restorative Dental Practice at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute. I was drawn to the course because of Eastman’s reputation. In my opinion it is one of the top postgraduate dental training establishments in the UK. The course itself attracted me because it was a fairly broad restorative course encompassing a wide range of disciplines in restorative dentistry.

A part-time course, the Restorative Dental Practice programme comprises three levels: certificate, diploma and masters. I successfully completed all three levels within five years. The flexibility of a part-time course meant I was able to fit my studies around a busy work and family schedule.

The first year of the course, the certificate year, required attendance approximately one day a fortnight. There was also a little bit of extra coursework and reading material, but the structure was essentially lectures and seminars in the morning, with practical hands-on application of the new knowledge in the skills lab in the afternoon. The focus wasn’t to spoon feed you answers to every clinical outcome, it was to help you to think your way around cases based on the new concepts you’d mastered.