Dentistry Interview Course
From Invite to Offer is one programme for medicine and dentistry. Dental interviews ask about things a medical one rarely does, like the dental team, how NHS dentistry is paid for and the GDC, so dentistry has its own questions and its own videos inside it. Teaching you how not to speak like a robot.
62 dentistry questions, each with a model answer.
They sit in the same bank as the 150+ medical and dental questions, with the follow-up an interviewer asks when an answer runs dry. These are the topics they cover.
- A dentist's working day
- Direct access and the dental team
- NHS and private practice side by side
- Dental foundation training
- Cosmetic treatment for a young person
- Consent and Gillick competence
- A patient refusing radiographs
- Treatment a patient cannot afford
- Cross infection and a colleague cutting corners
- The nine principles of the dental team
- Raising a concern in the dental team
- Social media and patient photographs
- Financial incentives and private treatment
- Hot topic: how NHS dentists are paid
- Getting an NHS dentist
- Dental charges
- Hot topic: water fluoridation
- Oral health inequalities
- Hot topic: children's tooth decay and hospital extractions
- A patient angry about a cost
- Explaining a procedure to an anxious patient
- Working closely with one other person
- A patient ashamed of their teeth
- The dental nurse
- The dental hygienist
- The dental therapist and children's care
- The dental technician
- The orthodontic therapist
- Clinical dental technicians and dentures
- The practice manager
- Associate or practice owner
- Dentistry as a business
- Stress and burnout in dentistry
- Small-team dynamics
- Complaints in a dental practice
- A colleague who may be burning out
- A tie-in to the NHS for new dentists
- Dental deserts
- Why dentists leave NHS work
- Overseas-qualified dentists
- Manual dexterity
- Can manual dexterity be learnt?
- Telling a patient a tooth must come out
- A frightened child
- Hot topic: a parent refusing fluoride varnish
- A complaint about treatment
- Oral hygiene for a teenager with braces
- Cosmetic treatment abroad
- Dental neglect and safeguarding
- Mouth cancer checks
- Hot topic: the sugar levy
- AI in dentistry
- Vaping and oral health
- Urgent calls on a Monday morning
- Tooth whitening outside dentistry
- A colleague shaken by an angry patient
- Hot topic: supervised toothbrushing in schools and nurseries
- Hot topic: chairside oral hygiene advice for a patient who isn't interested
- Hot topic: a prevention-focused NHS dental contract
- Hot topic: the dental issue that interests you most
- The hardest part of dentistry
- An area of dentistry you are drawn to
The dental team, the GDC and NHS dentistry.
These come in a dental version, made separately from the medical one. With the shared guides on every kind of station, a dentistry applicant gets 22 video guides for their course, released through the programme.
Who is on a dental team, what each registered role does, and how they share the work.
What the GDC expects of dental students and dentists, and how dental schools bring it into their stations.
How dentistry sits inside the NHS and alongside private practice, and what that means for patients and dentists.
What the regulator expects, before you are asked about it.
"The GDC and the Standards for the Dental Team" is one of the dentistry videos. Of the 62 dentistry model answers, 29 bring in what the GDC expects, from the principles every registrant works to, to raising a concern in the dental team.
Live seminars and content mocks.
Taught live on Zoom, Tuesdays at 18:00 UK time. Medical and dental interviews test many of the same things, so medicine and dentistry applicants are taught together.
35 stations in 5 circuits of 7, 4 minutes each, with the dental version of a station where there is one. You answer out loud with your device's dictation, then mark the circuit against the model answers.
Our admissions pages cover 17 dentistry courses, with each figure linked to the school that published it.