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[email protected] web: www.lwms.ac.uk A look at activities in and around the Leicester Warwick Medical Schools AUTUMN 2005 themselves, Mr Bettles says, will be Inside Issue 11... designed by architects specialising University Bid for in medical architecture and will be state of the art in both construction and functionality, highly reliant on Dental School the latest technology both for teaching and management of A Leicester Medical School bid to Mr Roger Bettles, a Member of the patients, including radiology. It is set up a new dental school has been University’s Council, who is also a hoped that each Academy will incor- shortlisted, along with five other retired consultant in dental public porate a full dental practice and centres across the country. health and a former National Presi- facilities for training Dental Thera- Leicester’s bid provides a revolu- dent of the British Dental Associa- pists, Hygienists and Dental Nurses. tionary model for dental training. tion, commented: “It is a very Teaching techniques will be p3 Research Focus – Evaluating Interprofessional Education Instead of a central dental school, exciting project for a dental school, adapted from those developed for the plan is to base the clinical compared with what is currently medical students training in centres teaching in four regional academies available. Only in the last few years away from the parent university, in the communities of Northampton, have dental schools been starting to such as between Leicester and Corby, Leicester, and Boston, try and place students reaching the Warwick. Lincolnshire. end of their training into a setting The bid has enthusiastic backing Annual intake would be 80 more like dental practice.