Short course
Adult Dental Therapy Preparation to Practice
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.
What you will learn
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.
Target audience
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.
For those interested in the CPD component of this program, an online evening Zoom session is scheduled for 2026.
Q & A Webinar details TBC
Please note: Upon enrolment into this program, access to the Canvas Community for the online learning will be granted.
CPD Credit: 90 hours of Scientific CPD
For enquiries, contact: mds-cpd@unimelb.edu.au
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Course details
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.