Faculty of Dentistry Handbook 2005 University Dates
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The University of Sydney Faculty of Dentistry Handbook 2005 University dates University semester and vacation dates 2005 Last dates for withdrawal or discontinuation 2005 Summer School Semester 1 units of study. Lectures begin Tuesday 4 January Last day to add a unit Friday 18 March Lectures end Friday 4 March Last day for withdrawal Thursday 31 March Semester 1 Last day to discontinue without failure Friday 29 April (DNF) Lectures begin Monday 7 March Last day to discontinue Friday 10 June AVCC Common Week/non-teaching Easter Friday 25 March to (Discontinued – Fail) Period Friday 1 April Study vacation Monday 13 June to Semester 2 units of study. Friday 17 June Last day to add a unit Friday 5 August Examination period Monday 20 June to Last day for withdrawal Wednesday 31 August Saturday 2 July Last day to discontinue without failure Friday 9 September Semester ends Saturday 2 July (DNF) AVCC Common week/non-teaching period Monday 4 July to Last day to discontinue Friday 28 October Friday 8 July (Discontinued – Fail) Semester 2 Last day to withdraw from a non- Details in the session calendar standard unit of study. on the Timetable Unit website. Lectures begin Monday 25 July AVCC Common Week/non-teaching period Monday 26 September http://web.timetable. to Friday 30 September auth.usyd.edu.au/ Study vacation Monday 31 October to Friday 4 November Examination period Monday 7 November to Saturday 19 November Semester ends Saturday 19 November These dates (and any updates) are also available at: www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/undergrad/apply/scm/dates.shtml The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Phone: (02) 9351 2222 Web: www.usyd.edu.au Faculty of Dentistry Phone: (02) 9351 8334 Fax: (02) 9211 5912 Web: www.dentistry.usyd.edu.au This book (and other handbooks) can also be found at: www.usyd.edu.au/handbooks The University of Sydney Faculty of Dentistry Handbook 2005. © 2004 The University of Sydney. ISSN 1034-2605. CRICOS Provider Code 00026A. The information in this handbook is subject to approval and/or change by the appropriate faculty of the University. Students should always check the accuracy of the information with faculty staff. Produced by the Publications Office, The University of Sydney. Contents Introduction 1 Master of Dental Science (Prosthodontics), Graduate Faculty Overview 1 Diploma in Clinical Dentistry (Restorative) and Dean’s Welcome 1 Graduate Certificate in Clinical Dentistry (Restorative) 26 Semester Dates 2005 1 Graduate Diploma in Community Oral Health 1. Guide to the Faculty 3 & Epidemiology 26 Helpful Information and Contacts 3 Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry (Conscious Faculty Governance, Management and Organisation 3 Sedation & Pain Control) 27 Professional Matters 4 Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry (Oral Implants) 27 Constitution of the Faculty 5 2005 Fees 27 Student Membership of the Faculty 6 Resolutions of the Senate for Postgraduate Coursework History of the Faculty 6 Programs 28 2. Staff 8 7. Other Faculty information 29 Academic Staff 8 Enrolment 29 Administration Staff - Sydney Dental Hospital & Libraries 29 Westmead Centre for Oral Health 9 Faculty Societies 29 Honorary/Clinical Staff 9 Committee for Continuing Education in Dentistry 30 Continuing Education in Dentistry 9 Traineeships, scholarships and prizes 30 Oral Health Foundation 9 University of Sydney (Coursework) 3. Bachelor of Dentistry 10 Rule 2000 (as amended) 31 Introduction 10 PRELIMINARY 31 Aims 10 RULES RELATING TO THE COURSEWORK AND Characteristics 10 AWARD COURSES 31 Organisation 11 Division 1: Award Course requirements credit points Goals 14 and assessment 31 Information Communication Technology 14 Division 2: Enrolment 32 Learning 15 Division 3: Credit, cross-institutional study and Assessment 15 their upper limits 32 Evaluation 16 Division 4: Progression 32 Research 16 Division 5: Discontinuation of enrolment and Bachelor of Dentistry (Honours), BDent(Hons) 17 suspension of candidature 33 Units of Study/Enrolment 17 Division 6: Unsatisfactory progress and exclusion 33 Division 7: Exceptional circumstances 34 4. Bachelor of Oral Health 18 Division 8: Award of degrees, diplomas and certificates 34 Knowledge 18 Division 9: Transitional provisions 34 Thinking Skills 18 Personal Skills 18 General University information 35 Personal Attributes 18 Accommodation Service 35 Practical Skills 18 Admissions Office 35 Units of Study 18 Applying for a course 35 Resolutions of the Senate 20 Assessment 35 Careers Centre 35 5. Postgraduate Research Courses and Casual Employment Service 35 Regulations 21 Centre for Continuing Education 35 Overview 21 Centre for English Teaching 36 Doctor of Dental Science (DDSc) 21 Child Care 36 Doctor of Philosophy 21 The Co-op Bookshop 36 Master of Science in Dentistry (MSc(Dent)) 21 Counselling Service 36 Enrolment Information for New Domestic Students 21 Disability Services 36 Enrolment Information for Continuing Domestic Students 21 Enrolment and pre-enrolment 36 Enrolment Information for International students 22 Environmental Policy 36 Legal Issues 22 Examinations 36 2005 Fees 22 Fees 36 Resolutions 22 Financial Assistance Office 37 6. Postgraduate Coursework Rules and Freedom of information 37 Regulations 23 Graduations Office 37 Overview 23 (Grievances) appeals 37 Enrolment Information for New and Continuing HECS and Fees Office 37 Domestic Students 23 Information Technology Services (ITS) 37 Enrolment Information for New and Continuing International Student Centre 38 International Students 24 Koori Centre and Yooroang Garang 38 Legal Issues 24 Language Centre 38 Master of Dental Science (Community Oral Health Learning Centre 38 & Epidemiology) 24 Library 38 Master of Dental Science (Oral Medicine & Oral Mathematics Learning Centre 39 Pathology) 25 MyUni student portal 39 Master of Dental Science (Orthodontics) 25 Part-time, full-time 39 Master of Dental Science (Paediatric Dentistry) 25 Privacy 39 Master of Dental Science (Periodontics) 25 Scholarships for undergraduates 39 iii Student Centre 39 Student identity cards 40 Student Services 40 The Sydney Summer School 40 Timetabling unit 40 University Health Service 40 Student Organisations 41 Students’ Representative Council 41 Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) 41 Sydney University Sport 41 University of Sydney Union 41 Abbreviations 42 Glossary 46 Maps 58 Camperdown/Darlington campus map 58 iv Faculty of Dentistry Handbook Faculty of Dentistry Handbook The following information is a printed version of the information available through Handbooks Online, on the University of Sydney web site. Please visit "http://www.usyd.edu.au/handbooks/" for the most current handbooks information. based learning and of self-evaluation in education with an aim to Faculty Overview promoting excellence in Dentistry. As a student within the Faculty The Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Sydney is Australia's of Dentistry, your educational experience will involve a blend of first and has been involved in the training of dental practitioners for clinical, medical and dental science, and dental and clinical practice over 100 years. The Faculty is one of the largest of the five dental based on a comprehensive care approach. You will also have the schools in Australia and is part of the University of Sydney's College opportunity to develop skills in critical analysis, reasoning, team of Health Sciences together with the Faculties of Health Sciences, work and problem solving to help you prepare for a professional Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. The Faculty is located at the career and for your life-long learning. Sydney Dental Hospital (Surry Hills Campus) and at the Westmead Centre for Oral Health, Westmead Hospital. Members of the teaching staff are committed to your education and to your evolution to an ethical, empathetic, scientifically informed The Faculty offers a dynamic and innovative suite of undergraduate and clinically competent oral health care provider. Depending on and postgraduate programs designed to produce dental practitioners, your course of study, this may take the shape of a dental practitioner, oral health professionals, dental specialists and researchers of the or dental hygienist/therapist, or dental specialist for our postgraduate highest calibre. candidates. Undergraduate courses are the graduate-entry Bachelor of Dentistry During your time with us you will be required to attend the two (BDent) program, and the Bachelor of Oral Health, which will accept major teaching hospitals of the Faculty: the Sydney Dental Hospital its first intake of students in 2005. and the Westmead Centre for Oral Health. We will expect of you the kind of honourable and mature behaviour associated with a caring Postgraduate courses are offered through specialist coursework profession in settings in which the University is a guest, albeit an programs in the disciplines of community oral health and epidemi- honoured one. You will be accorded significant privileges in these ology, orthodontics, prosthodontics, periodontics, oral medicine and two institutions, and the Faculty will require you to honour these oral pathology and paediatric dentistry. Graduate Diploma programs privileges. Our expectation will be that you respect both the patients are available in oral health and epidemiology, oral implants and you treat and the staff who help make your patient treatment exper- conscious sedation and pain control. An articulated course structure ience possible. has also been developed for the MDSc(Prosthodontics) program in- corporating the