Dentistry will appeal to students who have empathy for people, who are interested in their welfare and who like carrying out precision work with their hands. The University Dental School and Hospital encourages applications from mature students and from qualifying students with special educational backgrounds.This five-year course incorporates the vertical integration of traditional pre-clinical and clinical subjects to deliver an educational experience and training which follows contemporary best practice teaching methodologies.Equipment and instruments: Each third-year Dentistry student is required to make a payment of ?4,000 in the first week of September for the use of Dental Hospital equipment and instruments. You will also need to order scrubs in Year 2.AssessmentWritten exams will take place before Christmas and in May. Not all modules will have formal examinations. Many modules use other types of assessment including essay-type examination, literature review, competency testing, clinical examination and an ePortfolio of reflective practice. This reflects the theoretical, clinical, manual dexterity, social and problem-solving skills which you are expected to have developed on graduation from this course.Each module is assessed separately and, depending on the content, the assessment may take the form of an end-of-module examination or continuous assessment.