Are you interested in a career in dentistry?
Work experience will give you first hand experience of what it is like to work in the dental field.
The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne offers work experience placements to secondary school students or tertiary students who are looking for a career change.
More information
Kaylene O’Day
Tel: 9341 1364
What kind of jobs are available in dentistry?
- Dentist
- Specialist dentist
- Oral health therapist
- Prosthetist
- Dental assistant
- Dental technician
What departments will I be placed in?
One week of work experience at the Hospital can cover a wide range of departments. You will have the opportunity to see and experience dentistry in action in the following areas:
Department | Area of practice |
|---|
Undergraduate teaching clinic | Student teaching clinic |
Periodontics | Gums |
| Paedodontics | Children's dentistry |
| Oral and maxillofacial surgery | Surgery |
| Orthodontics | Braces |
| Radiology | X-ray |
| Special needs dentistry | Disabled patients |
| Primary care | Emergency care |
| Prosthodontics | Crowns, bridges, implants |
| Records | Medical files, mail |
| Oral medicine | Oral cancer and pain clinic |
| Endodontics | Root canal |
| Dental laboratory | Making of dentures |
| Clerical | Reception |