Dental Law and Ethics Postgraduate Diploma - PgDip

A ground-breaking PgCert offering the only university-accredited law and ethics course specifically for dental professionals, this flexible, part-time course provides a unique opportunity to study dental care from ethical, legal and professional perspectives. It builds your professional knowledge of the concepts and theories of law and ethics, and how they are applied in practice. Encompassing both clinical and business settings, it provides you with the opportunity to examine your own practice, particularly when it comes to enhancing patient care and delivering excellent service.

To take this course, you must have a relevant qualification in the field and be working in the profession.

Facilities and specialist equipment

* 24/7 access to our library services with 304,660 e-books and 76,420 e-journals

* Guided learning materials and e-learning resources on the University’s virtual learning platform

Your student experience

The course combines eight study days with online and self-directed learning.

Study the ethical challenges and dilemmas that occur in dental practice; propose possible responses; and support these with well-argued rationales.

Deliver tutor-supported assessment tasks tailored to allow you to deal with the real issues you encounter in your professional life.

Develop the ability to appraise your own approach to practice using independent or collaborative methods to identify and respond to your needs.

Benefit from a wide range of learning and teaching methods including small-group workshops; micro-teaching; case studies; critical-incident analysis; and action learning sets.

Learn from an interdisciplinary team of university academics and visiting experts with wide-ranging legal and ethical expertise.

Our academic team are research active and have published widely in their fields, in journals including the *British Dental Journal.*

Benefit from being at a University with a successful track record of supporting those returning to study after long periods in the workplace or after a career break.

Our Bedford campus is a small, thriving academic community where academic staff get to know you well.