Course summary

Become a specialist in endodontics with our Clinical Doctorate Programme. This clinical three-year, full-time taught postgraduate course combines academic study with clinical training. You will qualify with a Clinical Doctorate award from the University of Sheffield and the Specialty Membership from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Course description This course is for dentists who want to specialise in endodontics and earn speciality Membership from the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd). At the end of your final year, you can sit a single ‘conjoint’ exit assessment held between the University of Sheffield and RCSEd. Candidates will be awarded a DClinDent from the University of Sheffield and a membership from the RCSEd in the relevant specialty, without the need to sit a separate examination. Whilst the focus of the course will be in endodontics as your chosen speciality, you will learn alongside colleagues enrolled in our Periodontics and Prosthodontics courses. With small clinical group sizes (a ratio of 1:4) you will gain a broad and deep knowledge and skill base, preparing you well for the conjoint RCSEd membership exams and a clinical career in restorative dentistry. All our courses are mapped to the UK General Dental Council’s speciality curricula to make sure the whole syllabus is covered throughout the three years. During your first year, you will cover all aspects of restorative dentistry in all three specialisms, including operative skills, clinical assessments and patient care. This provides a unique opportunity for you to develop a solid foundation in all aspects of restorative dentistry. You will develop new practical skills in clinical training sessions, and participate in specialist care consultant clinics with case discussions. In your second and third year, your learning and professional development will focus almost exclusively on your mono-speciality working towards the end-of-programme con-joint examinations. You will gain the confidence to make sound judgements in complex and unpredictable patient care. You will further develop a speciality skill set in the multidisciplinary environment of the programme; working, learning and sharing experiences with students and trainees from other areas. You will develop your skills and professional aptitudes in all domains so that you can communicate confidently, clearly and professionally with specialists, non-specialists and your patients. View all DClinDent courses at Sheffield on our website. Why study at Sheffield?

• State-of-the-art facilities and bespoke patient clinics - You will develop your clinical skills via skill simulation environments, laboratory production laboratories (digital and conventional) and in NHS patient clinics equipped with the state-of-the-art technologies and under the supervision of specialist staff. You will work alongside a dental nurse assigned to support you in patient care throughout your study with us.

• Small class sizes - You will be taught clinical skills by registered specialists with a ratio of 1 teacher to 4 students, and learn from and collaborate with clinicians across all three restorative dentistry mono-specialities.

• Develop your research skills - You will take part in a research project, culminating in a peer-reviewed journal publication written by you.