AQF level 7 bachelor degree in dentistry completed more than 2 years before application
IELTS
Band P :5.5 (no component lower than 5.0)
Band 1: 6(no component lower than 6.0)
Band 2: 6.5 (no component lower than 6.0)
Band 3a: 7 (no component lower than 6.5)
Band 3b : 7(with 7.0 in three components and 6.5 in one component)
Band 3c: 7 (no component lower than 7.0)
TOEFL (internet based)
Band P: 56 (no component less than 16)
Band 1: 74 (no component less than 18)
Band 2: 86 (no component less than 21)
Band 3a: 94 (no component less than 23)
Band 3b: 94 (23 in Speaking, 24 in Listening and Reading, and 27 in Writing)
Band 3c: 94 (23 in Speaking, 24 in Listening and Reading, and 27 in Writing)
Pearson (PTE Academic)
Band P: 46 (no component less than 42)
Band 1: 52 (no component less than 52)
Band 2: 58 (no component less than 54)
Band 3a: 65 (no component less than 58)
Band 3b: 65 (with 65 in three components and 58 in one component
Band 3c 65 (no component less than 65)
C1 Advanced/ C2 Proficiency
Band P: 162 (no component less than 154)
Band 1: 169 (no component less than 169)
Band 2: 176 (no component less than 169)
ISLPR
Band P: At least 2 in each skill area
Band 1: At least 3 in each skill area
If you're already an AHPRA registered dental graduate, here's a unique JCU course that gives you the opportunity to enhance your academic knowledge, clinical and technical skills. Choosing to study this JCU Graduate Diploma offers you the significant benefits to gain postgraduate skills under a blended learning environment well suited to the busy clinician.
The purpose of the Graduate Diploma of Orthodontics is to train and educate AHPRA registered dental graduates who want to enhance their orthodontic academic, clinical and technical skills and knowledge to enable them to successfully identify, treat and care for patients requiring orthodontic treatment.
Continue your busy dental practice while you study. This two-year part-time JCU course is offered from JCU's state-of-the-art Cairns Dental School, with extensive use of blended and online learning delivery methods. You'll have the opportunity to treat patients from initial record taking, diagnosis, treatment planning, bonding of fixed appliances and issue of retainers. These finished cases will be supervised and assessed by a national and international faculty.
The Graduate Diploma of Orthodontics requires compulsory face-to-face (at Cairns campus) and online attendance (via LearnJCU) on prescribed dates:
One-week face-to-face intensive clinical workshop (at the beginning of the course)
Six-weekly clinical sessions (Cairns campus) throughout the course (2 years).
Six-weekly online seminars/tutorials (via LearnJCU) throughout the course (2 years).
One -week face-to-face final exams/ finished cases (Cairns campus) at the end of the course.
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Your Graduate Diploma qualification will equip you to serve the orthodontic treatment needs of a large cohort of patients who present with dental issues to which orthodontic treatment is the only solution.
This orthodontics course provides you with skills and knowledge that enable you to undertake clinical diagnosis and treatment for patients who require orthodontic treatment. When you graduate, you'll be able to offer an enhanced scope of care in a field of dentistry that is experiencing significant demand.
JCU graduates have acquired enhanced skills and knowledge to enable them to:
Apply the scientific basis of orthodontics, with particular emphasis on current theories relevant to growth and development; diagnosis; treatment planning; and, clinical management of malocclusions.
Properly diagnose orthodontic dental malocclusions and skeletal discrepancies.
Formulate a competent treatment plan following consideration of the underlying aetiological factors and addressing the patient’s chief complaint.
Implement biomechanical methods to treat orthodontic cases.
Provide orthodontic treatment based on evidence-based dentistry.
Critically analyse orthodontic literature and apply it clinically.
OSHC: 530 ($) AUD per year
