Non-Award
This program equips dental/oral health therapists with additional skills and knowledge in adult dental therapy practice, preparing them for new career paths to meet Australia's future dental needs.
This program equips dental/oral health therapists with additional skills and knowledge in adult dental therapy practice, preparing them for new career paths to meet Australia's future dental needs.
This course is open to dental therapists and oral health therapists with one years' full-time experience in the provision of dental therapy services, where this experience has been undertaken within the last five years. This course is NOT a workforce re-entry program - it is assumed that applicants have current restorative knowledge and recency of practice in diagnosis and restorative care.
Applicants must be registered (or eligible for registration) as a dental therapist/oral health therapist with the Australian Health Professional Regulation Agency.
As course participants provide clinical services at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, all applicants must hold a current Working with Children Check and undertake credentialing procedures - more information on these procedures will be provided to successful applicants.
You will develop the knowledge and undertake introductory clinical practice for adult dental therapy practice including treatment planning for simple direct restorations for people aged over 25 years.
Approx. 10 weeks online (from 14 July), 10 days onsite at MDS (20-31 Oct (TBC)), plus self-directed clinical practice post-course to consolidate skills.