GRADUATE STUDENTS

The School is home to clinical training students as well as dental research students. Graduate students in each of these domains have different requirements to fulfill and different needs.

Clinical training students
Dental research students

Clinical Training Students

Welcome to the Melbourne Dental School.

Online enrolment
what documents you need to provide
Graduate Orientation and Certification Program
Graduate study rooms

Online enrolment

Enrolment is online (local students international students). You can enrol from anywhere with internet access. You will need to accept your offer again on the system to complete the process. Please go online before 5pm Friday 30 January 2009 to enrol.

Documents you need to provide by Friday 27 February 2009

a. National Police Record Check

b. Working With Children Check

c. Dental Registration with Dental Practice Board of Victoria ( – local students require General Registration (http://www.dentprac.vic.gov.au/docs/reg_gen.pdf ); international students require Specific Registration (http://www.dentprac.vic.gov.au/docs/reg_71d.pdf)

d. Victorian Radiation License (http://www.health.vic.gov.au/environment/downloads/radiation/use_app.pdf)

e. Statement of Compliance with Faculty Infection Diseases Policy (http://www.dent.unimelb.edu.au/forms/INFECTIOUS_DISEASE_POLICY_SDS_OCT07.pdf)

f. Application for Clinical Privileges at DHSV as a Clinical Demonstrator

Graduate Orientation and Certification Program

Your course begins on Monday 2 February 2009 with this important week-long program. You must be here at 9.00am on this day for the commencement of the Graduate Orientation and Certification Program. This program contains certification sessions crucial to undertaking clinical training in the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne and important ‘survival’ information about facilities and services provided by the University. The program is conducted jointly by the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne and the University of Melbourne.

Graduate Study Rooms

The Melbourne Dental School provides study areas for graduate students. Students enrolled full-time and who undertake the majority of their clinical training with the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne will be allocated a desk with storage space. Part-time students or students who do not undertake the majority of their clinical training with the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne will be allocated lockable storage space for holding personal items and some study materials. Four shared desks are available for use as well. Students will need to organise their allocated space efficiently and store excess materials at home to ensure a comfortable study environment for all.

Police Record Checks

Clinical placements are part of the graduate clinical courses and are undertaken at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, other metropolitan hospitals and metropolitan and rural community clinics. Most hospitals and clinical agencies require Police Record Checks (http://www.police.vic.gov.au/content.asp?Document_ID=274) for all students, staff and volunteers who will come into contact with children, elderly and vulnerable people.

All students commencing a clinical course, both local and international, are required to obtain a police check at their own expense prior to enrolment. International students and students who studied outside Australia (including New Zealand) in the year prior to enrolment must obtain a police record check from the country in which they spent that year.

Working with Children Checks

All students who will come in contact with children during their course are required to obtain a Working with Children Check prior to enrolment. Working with Children checks are valid for 5 Years. Students whose course extends beyond 5 years will be required to obtain a new check.
Please read the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science Working with Children Check Policy. Applying for a Working with Children Check, see the sample application and information sheet (PDF 1 MB).