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Stomatology

Teaching Medium: Chinese
Degree Awarded: Bachelor's Degree
Entry Requirements: High School Graduate
Duration: 5 Years
Starting Date: Sep.2024
Application Deadline: May 31, 2024
Tuition Fee:
CNY 45,000 per year
Application Fee:
150 USD (Non-Refundable)
Schools: Other

Overview

This is a program with the aim to cultivating dentists who are well prepared and highly competitive for the future clinical practice. Students must pass all the compulsory courses and graduation examination before applying for the degree (bachelor of dental surgery). Completion of the curriculum is usually accomplished in 5 years.

Introduction

Stomatology is a systemic subject which studies the initiation, process, treatment and prevention for oral diseases. The characteristics of stomatology is obvious, and it needs good practice. Moreover, it has many patients and thus a high demand for professional persons. With the development of society, economy and the aging condition of the whole population, as well as the change of oral disease patterns and the increasing demand for dental therapy and medical care, the status of stomatology is becoming prominent continuously and plays an important role in protecting people’s physical and mental health, as well as improving the life quality.
Stomatology can be divided into two grade-2 subjects of preclinical subject and clinical subject. Clinical subject includes four grade-3 subjects of Oral Medicine, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Prosthodontics and Orthodontics while preclinical subject includes Oral Histopathology, Oral Anatomy and Physiology, Oral Radiology,Oral Material Science.

Main Courses

Main courses include Human Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Biochemistry, Oral Anatomy and Physiology, Oral Histopathology, Endodontology, Periodontology, Oral Mucosal Diseases, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Prosthodontology, Orthodongtology.

Main Laboratory and Practice

Main laboratory and practice include Oral Histopathology, Oral Anatomy and Physiology, Endodontology, Periodontology, Oral Mucosal Diseases, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Prosthodontology, Orthodongtology, Oral Radiology, Oral Art and Technology, Preclinical Training.
Dental practice lasts for 36 weeks, which includes the comprehensive practice in oral medicine, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Prosthodontics.

Degree Structure

This is a five-year program. Students will spend 4 years studying the basic and clinical knowledge mainly at class. The first year is a period for general education, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, Chinese language, Chinese culture and globalization and basic specialized courses. From year 2 to 4, all the basic and clinical courses will be given with the evaluation of lectures, experiments or probation, quizzes, assignments and test papers. The last year is the clinical rotation. The student will spend one year in the dental hospitals and rotate every department to get the basic training for the clinical practice. The school and the hospitals also offer the chances of academic lectures or research programs to those who have strong interests and ability in innovation and research. Throughout the 5 years, students have to study 44 courses (including 9 general courses and 1 language course, 14 basic courses and 20 clinical courses), among which 38 are compulsory and 6 are selective.
The student will be awarded the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery after passing the compulsory courses, finishing the clinical rotation (clerk ship) and passing the graduation examination. The holder of this degree is credible to applying for the license of practicing dentists and for the residence training.

Teaching and Assessment

The degree program is structured around two semesters each year. Each semester consists of 16 weeks followed by revision time and examinations. This undergraduate program utilizes a range of teaching methods including lectures as well as experiments, probation and clinical training. Students will have around 20 hours of lectures and experiments each week. Courses are assessed through a mixture of quizzes, assignments, experiments, probation and test-paper examinations.
Each student has a tutor who is available to offer general guidance and assistance with both academic and personal concerns on an individual basis.

Credit Requirements

The major in Dentistry leads to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery. 

Curriculum Class Hours: 3275    
(Required Class Hours: 2251, Elective Class Hours: 1024)

Curriculum Credits: 179.75       

(Required Class Hours: 159.25, Elective Class Hours: 20.5)

Graduation Credits: 174.25       

(Required Class Hours: 159.25, Elective Class Hours: 15)

Careers

To develop future dentists who are well prepared and highly competitive.

Graduates are also eligible to attend various postgraduate examinations, including examinations for membership and fellowship of professional institutions, Master’s and Doctor’s degrees in medicine, and board certification examinations.

Academic Objectives

This major is aiming to cultivate high-level and comprehensive talents, who have good science and humanistic quality, solid and wide professional knowledge, strong abilities in innovation and solving practical problems in the field of stomatology. They have the ability of diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases, keeping learning for the whole life and owning good career qualification.

Major Predominance and Characteristics

This major has a lot of leading professors who are good at teaching and clinical practice. The course system in this major is very reasonable. We have the advanced apparatus and equipment in the basic teaching laboratories and clinical skill training laboratories. Moreover, we have our own teaching hospital with more that 60 dental chairs as well as quite a few of provincial hospitals as our clinical practice bases. We put emphasis on the cultivation of practice ability, and we have established a complete cultivation system for improving practice ability. Therefore, our undergraduates have the reputation for high comprehensive capability, strong social competition and good practice ability, and they are all welcomed by the hospitals and other academic institutes.

The achievements of the major “Stomatology” are as follows:

2008: Conferred as the provincial brand specialty by Shandong province;
2010: Conferred as national characteristic specialty by MOE;
2010: Periodontology is conferred as the provincial quality course by Shandong province

About Tuition

41,000 RMB for the first academic year, and 32,000 RMB per year will be charged as tuition fee in the following four years.

1. No Chinese-citizen with foreign passport.

2. Having the diploma of senior high school or above.


3. With a good health and the age above 18

1. Photocopy of valid passport
With photo, passport number &expiration date and name included.


2. Passport-sized photo
A passport-sized photo taken recently of the applicant.


3. Graduation certificate of high school
Graduation certificate should be in Chinese or English.If not, it should be translated into Chinese or English and be notarized.


4. Academic transcript of high school


5. Health certificate

Not needed during application. But may required when applying for visa.


6. A photocopy of the pre-medical (FSc.) certificate

Needed only for Pakistan students.


7. Financial guarantee letter from parents

Photocopy of the financial support statement with signature


8. Photocopies of parents' passport or identification documents

For example, photocopy of ID card, photocopy of passport, etc.


9. English proficiency test certificate

For example, IELTS or TOEFL, only for applicant whose native language is not English.


10. Resume


11. Family History


12. Certificate of Employment(If Applicable)