The Sheffield Dentistry courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Sheffield dentistry course at a glance
Organised into nine integrated themes rather than year-by-year silos. The distinctive part is the Dental Practice Unit — a mock general practice where final-year students run their own surgery with a nurse and minimal supervision.
How Sheffield teaches dentistry
The five-year course is "divided into nine integrated themes, from fundamental human anatomy to oral disease and integrated clinical practice", designed to give practical, hands-on experience as early as possible.
What that means day to day
When you first treat patients
From the first year students visit dental clinics and start to learn about their role as a healthcare professional in the dental team.
Year by year at Sheffield
Where you will actually be at Sheffield
Placement geography is the part of a dentistry course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Sheffield publishes.
Outreach placements in primary care practices, community clinics, dental access centres and general dental practices. An elective placement is also available.
Worth knowing about Sheffield
- The Dental Practice Unit is set up as a general practice, where students work in their own surgery with the close support of a nurse and minimal supervision.
Applying to Sheffield?
How to get into Sheffield
Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
Open the guide →Sheffield UCAT cut-offs and offers
UCAT cut-offs, A-level offers, interview format and decision dates.
See the requirements →Compare Sheffield with other schools
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Open the comparison →Prepare for the Sheffield interview
Format breakdown, school-specific sample questions and prep tips from tutors who interviewed here.
Read the guide →Where this Sheffield course profile came from
University of Sheffield School of Clinical 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 Sheffield School of Clinical 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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