The Birmingham Dentistry courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Birmingham dentistry course at a glance
Taught in the UK's first integrated, stand-alone dental hospital and school built in nearly 40 years. Birmingham publishes exactly how placement-heavy each year is — 1% of year 1, rising to 60% of year 5.
How Birmingham teaches dentistry
Designed to "facilitate the development of core real-world clinical skills and patient care experiences", with a "patient-centred holistic approach to teaching".
What that means day to day
When you first treat patients
Students have the opportunity to be involved in patient care right from the start; placement time rises from about 1% of year 1 to 60% of year 5.
Year by year at Birmingham
Where you will actually be at Birmingham
Placement geography is the part of a dentistry course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Birmingham publishes.
Community placements run between years 3 and 5; the year 4 hospital placement could be in Coventry, Stoke or Worcester. The dental hospital sits about a mile from the main campus.
- Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry
Worth knowing about Birmingham
- Birmingham Dental Hospital and School is the first integrated, stand-alone dental hospital and school to be built in the UK for almost 40 years.
- It houses a fully computerised phantom head laboratory.
Applying to Birmingham?
How to get into Birmingham
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Birmingham UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
See the requirements →Compare Birmingham with other schools
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Open the comparison →Prepare for the Birmingham interview
Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Birmingham course profile came from
University of Birmingham School of Dentistry's course page could not be read directly by our tooling — it either sits behind a bot wall or renders in the browser — so this page was built from the university's own published course and school pages, checked on 2026-09-11. Confirm the detail against the official page before you rely on it.
Primary source: University of Birmingham School of Dentistry — official course information.
Courses are restructured between cycles. Anything here that decides your application — an anatomy offer, a placement city, a compulsory intercalated year — should be confirmed against the official page for your entry year.
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