Master of Dental Surgery
This qualification includes various specialisations. Please refer to "Notes" for details on the specialisations.
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Qualification type
Master's Degree
Credits
180
Sub-framework
HEQSF - Higher Education Qualifications Sub-framework
Providers listed
1
Qualification snapshot
Official qualification identity fields captured from the qualification record.
Originator
University of the Western Cape
Quality assurance functionary
CHE - Council on Higher Education
Field
Field 09 - Health Sciences and Social Services
Subfield
Curative Health
Qual class
Regular-Provider-ELOAC
Recognise previous learning
N
Important dates
These dates are carried directly from the qualification record.
Registration start
2024-07-01
Registration end
2027-06-30
Last date for enrolment
2028-06-30
Last date for achievement
2031-06-30
Purpose and entry context
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Purpose and rationale
This qualification includes various specialisations. Please refer to "Notes" for details on the specialisations.
Purpose
To provide qualifiers with specialised knowledge, specific clinical skills and applied competence in dental surgery that provide opportunities for continued personal intellectual growth, gainful economic activity and rewarding contributions to society.
Provide South Africa with significant numbers of post learners/specialists of dental surgery in order to ensure that the local leadership base of innovative and knowledge-based economic and scholarly activity is widened.
Entry requirements and RPL
Entry Requirements
The minimum entry requirement for this qualification is a
- Bachelor of Dental Science, NQF Level 8.
Structure and assessment
Qualification rules, exit outcomes, and assessment criteria from the SAQA record.
Associated assessment criteria
- Dental surgery is performed in accordance with set standards.
- Specialised scholastic and advanced research skills are displayed in Dental Surgery disciplines and a full range of advanced procedures are performed in complex, variable and highly specialised contexts.
- Specialised knowledge of the Dental Surgery discipline is demonstrated, abstract data and concepts are processed at a level of analyses, transformation and evaluation and responses are created to resolve abstract Dental Surgery problems.
- Oral and written modes or communication with appropriate structure, style and graphic support are demonstrated effectively in the broader Dental Surgery community.
- Responsibility for planning, resourcing and managing are demonstrated within broad parameters and functions.
- Personal and/or group output is optimised by complete accountability for its determination, achievement and evaluation.
Integrated Assessment
Assessment may consist of any of the following combinations
- A research report.
- A research report and an oral examination.
- A research report and written papers.
- A research report and an oral and a written examination.
Progression and comparability
Articulation options
This qualification allows possibilities for both vertical and horizontal articulation.
Horizontal Articulation
- Master of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, NQF Level 9.
- Master of Orthodontics, NQF Level 9.
- Master of Prosthodontics, NQF Level 9.
- Master of Community Dentistry, NQF Level 9.
- Master of Oral Pathology, NQF Level 9.
Vertical Articulation
- Doctor of Philosophy in Dental Surgery, NQF Level 10.
- Doctor of Philosophy in Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, NQF Level 10.
- Doctor of Philosophy in Orthodontics, NQF Level 10.
- Doctor of Philosophy in Prosthodontics, NQF Level 10.
- Doctor of Philosophy in Community Dentistry, NQF Level 10.
- Doctor of Philosophy in Oral Pathology, NQF Level 10.
Notes
As per the SAQA Board decision/s at that time, this qualification was Reregistered in 2006; 2009; 2012; 2015.
NOTES
N/A
Providers currently listed
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