Master of Dental Surgery in Oral Pathology
The purposes of the qualification are: - To provide qualifiers with specialised knowledge, specific clinical skills and applied competence in a specific dental discipline that provide opportunities for continue personal intellectual growth, gainful economic activity and rewarding contributions to society.
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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
Preventive Health
Qual class
Regular-Provider-ELOAC
Recognise previous learning
Y
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
Official SAQA text formatted for easier reading.
Purpose and rationale
The purposes of the qualification are
- To provide qualifiers with specialised knowledge, specific clinical skills and applied competence in a specific dental discipline that provide opportunities for continue personal intellectual growth, gainful economic activity and rewarding contributions to society.
- To provide South Africa with significant numbers of postgraduates/specialists of specific dental disciplines in order to ensure that the local leadership base of innovative and knowledge-based economic and scholarly activity is widened.
Entry requirements and RPL
- A Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree
- A Bachelor of Science: Honours in Dental/Allied discipline
- A Bachelor of Dental Therapy/Oral Hygiene degree with a minimum 3 years appropriate experience.
Structure and assessment
Qualification rules, exit outcomes, and assessment criteria from the SAQA record.
Exit level outcomes
- Be able to perform all standard dental procedures.
- Be able to perform all specialised procedures related to the specific disipline.
- Competent in the design, methodology, implementation and publication of a research paper/project.
- Display specialised and basic research skills in a specific clinical dental discipline and to perform a full range of standard and non standard procedures often in non standard combinations across a major clinical dental discipline in complex and viable routine and non routine contexts.
- Communicate effectively in both oral and written modes with peers and the broader community using the appropriate structure, style and graphic support.
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 Dental Surgery discipline is demonstrated, abstract data and concepts are processed at a level of analysis, 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 appropriately incorporated to ensure that the purpose of the qualification is achieved
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 articulates vertically with all qualifications in the same discipline at level 8 of all other higher education institutions. It will be the additional criteria that these other higher education institutions will apply which determine whether students from the faculty of Dentistry at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) will be admitted to the next qualification at other institutions.
Notes
As per the SAQA Board decision/s at that time, this qualification was Reregistered in 2006; 2009; 2012; 2015.
NOTES
The degree can be taken in the following areas of specialisation
- Maxillofacial & Oral Surgery
- Orthodontics
- Prosthodontics
- Community Dentistry
- Oral Pathology
Providers currently listed
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