ORE Preparation Dental Courses
This unique intensive modular postgraduate dental programme prepares participants for the Overseas Registration Examination (ORE) held by the General Dental Council.
The ORE programme run in the UK, consists of series of 4 modules each of at least one month’s duration. These full time modules provide participants with the time and intensity of postgraduate dental training required for reflection and depth study. All four modules can be taken together and form the Primary Dental Care programme.
The preparatory programme ORE follows the UK dental curriculum The First Five Years: A Framework for undergraduate Dental Education.
The ORE is consists of two parts which are covered by the modules of the programme.
Part 1 consists of written papers covering the subjects of: applied dental science, clinically applied human disease, clinical dentistry, law and ethics and health and safety.
Part 2 consists of a practical examination on a dental manikin, an OSCE, an exam in diagnosis and treatment planning and a medical emergencies exam.
The General Dental Council pre-requirements for entering the ORE:
The overseas dentist must have 1,600 hours clinical experience where they have personally treated patients in the dental chair. The number of hours of this clinical experience will either be hours spent by the overseas dentist undertaking appropriate investigations and administering dental treatment during their dental degree, during post-qualification experience, or a combination of the two. It could also be undertaken during temporary registration. It will not include time observing other dentists or assisting other dentists/dental students in undertaking diagnosis/treatment planning or provision of treatment.
