The Queen Mary (QMUL) Dentistry courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Queen Mary (QMUL) dentistry course at a glance
Taught at the Royal London Dental Institute in Whitechapel — a £78 million building that was the first new dental school built in the UK for over 40 years — with rotations through three outreach dental clinics.
How Queen Mary (QMUL) teaches dentistry
Year 1 provides a foundation in basic sciences, clinical practice and professionalism, emphasising early clinical exposure and patient-centred care. Later years spend substantial time with patients, alongside seminars, clinical skills laboratory work, tutorials, e-learning projects and library activity.
What that means day to day
Year by year at Queen Mary (QMUL)
Where you will actually be at Queen Mary (QMUL)
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Students rotate around three outreach dental clinics, serving the local community.
- The Royal London Dental Institute
Worth knowing about Queen Mary (QMUL)
- The Institute of Dentistry moved into the Alexandra Wing of The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel in 2014 — a £78 million building, the first new dental school built in the UK for over 40 years.
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How to get into Queen Mary (QMUL)
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Queen Mary University of London (Barts and The London Institute 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: Queen Mary University of London (Barts and The London Institute 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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