Australia
Australia has nine dental schools:
- University of Sydney, NSW
- Charles Sturt University, NSW*
- Griffith University, QLD*
- University of Queensland, QLD
- James Cook University, QLD*
- University of Adelaide, SA
- La Trobe University, VIC*
- University of Melbourne, VIC
- University of Western Australia, WA
(*) indicates new university dental programs that have opened up to aim at increasing the number of rural dental students entering and to return to rural practice. Traditional "sandstone" universities have been Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland, Adelaide and Western Australia.
Sydney (as of 2001) and Melbourne (as of 2010) have switched to 4-year graduate program that require a previous bachelor's degree for admission.
Post-graduate training is available in all dental specialties. Degrees awarded used to be Master of Dental Surgery/Science (MDS/MDSc), but lately have changed to Doctorate in Clinical Dentistry (DClinDent).
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