The Queen's University Belfast Dentistry courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Queen's University Belfast dentistry course at a glance
Based at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast with 90 dental chairs for undergraduate teaching. From year 3 students spend more than 60% of their time in clinic treating their own patients.
How Queen's University Belfast teaches dentistry
A workplace learning model, with skills attainment and development recorded on the LIFTUPP iPad system. Clinical skills are developed in clinical skills laboratories with high-fidelity simulated learning in the QUB InterSim Centre.
What that means day to day
When you first treat patients
Year 1 includes a placement in Community Dental Service clinics and the dental hospital to observe and learn about clinical practice.
Year by year at Queen's University Belfast
Where you will actually be at Queen's University Belfast
Placement geography is the part of a dentistry course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Queen's University Belfast publishes.
90 dental chairs are provided for undergraduate teaching and NHS clinical service.
- Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road, Belfast
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How to get into Queen's University Belfast
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
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Read the guide →Where this Queen's University Belfast course profile came from
Queen's University Belfast School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences'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's University Belfast School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences — 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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