Practical Training

Practical training and exams:

When you are going through a practical exam, you have to make sure that your clinical skills are competitive.

UWO provides a course of 5 days for internationally trained dentists to upgrade their skills to the current Canadian standards. It is directed toward PLA which makes sense. Plus it gives you a general background that may help in the exams of other universities. Yet, it is a very short course and doesn’t give you time to get enough training. You should do more practice by your own.

What most people do is performing their own training at home. They buy a dental unit, or assemble one in a certain way. Order instruments, burs and teeth from some places and then practice at home! They get supervision from internationally trained dentists who are already in the program, from regular dental students or even from family dentists. Couple of places provide dental units and related stuff for student to practice. It is helpful but such places are not many. Most of the time, you may be living in another area which makes this option not practical.

If you are not sure about the instruments’ number that you need, then we may give you helpful advice. Go to “links” section to see from where you can order dental instruments and stuff.

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