Stomatology

Shandong University, founded in 1901, is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education of China. Over the years, Shandong University has established an extensive international education cooperation network and signed exchange agreements with more than 70 universities in more than 50 countries. SDU is the first course in China to provide English medical courses (MBBS) for international students, and has become the most popular course in this field. In addition, Shandong University also has a famous undergraduate Chinese major course, which has a huge educational foundation. Over the years, the HSK pass rate is the highest in China. SICAS rated it as a five-star university.

Overview

This is a program with the aim to cultivating dentists who are well prepared and highly competitive for the future clinical practice. Students must pass all the compulsory courses and graduation examination before applying for the degree (bachelor of dental surgery). Completion of the curriculum is usually accomplished in 5 years.

Introduction

Stomatology is a systemic subject which studies the initiation, process, treatment and prevention for oral diseases. The characteristics of stomatology is obvious, and it needs good practice. Moreover, it has many patients and thus a high demand for professional persons. With the development of society, economy and the aging condition of the whole population, as well as the change of oral disease patterns and the increasing demand for dental therapy and medical care, the status of stomatology is becoming prominent continuously and plays an important role in protecting people’s physical and mental health, as well as improving the life quality.Stomatology can be divided into two grade-2 subjects of preclinical subject and clinical subject. Clinical subject includes four grade-3 subjects of Oral Medicine, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Prosthodontics and Orthodontics while preclinical subject includes Oral Histopathology, Oral Anatomy and Physiology, Oral Radiology,Oral Material Science.

Main Courses

Main courses include Human Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Biochemistry, Oral Anatomy and Physiology, Oral Histopathology, Endodontology, Periodontology, Oral Mucosal Diseases, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Prosthodontology, Orthodongtology.

Main Laboratory and Practice

Main laboratory and practice include Oral Histopathology, Oral Anatomy and Physiology, Endodontology, Periodontology, Oral Mucosal Diseases, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Prosthodontology, Orthodongtology, Oral Radiology, Oral Art and Technology, Preclinical Training.Dental practice lasts for 36 weeks, which includes the comprehensive practice in oral medicine, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Prosthodontics.

Degree Structure

This is a five-year program. Students will spend 4 years studying the basic and clinical knowledge mainly at class. The first year is a period for general education, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, Chinese language, Chinese culture and globalization and basic specialized courses. From year 2 to 4, all the basic and clinical courses will be given with the evaluation of lectures, experiments or probation, quizzes, assignments and test papers. The last year is the clinical rotation. The student will spend one year in the dental hospitals and rotate every department to get the basic training for the clinical practice. The school and the hospitals also offer the chances of academic lectures or research programs to those who have strong interests and ability in innovation and research. Throughout the 5 years, students have to study44 courses (including 9 general courses and 1 language course, 14 basic courses and 20 clinical courses),among which 38 are compulsory and 6 are selective. The student will be awarded the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery after passing the compulsory courses, finishing the clinical rotation (clerk ship) and passing the graduation examination. The holder of this degree is credible to applying for the license of practicing dentists and for the residence training.

Teaching and Assessment

The degree program is structured around two semesters each year. Each semester consists of 16 weeks followed by revision time and examinations. This undergraduate program utilizes a range of teaching methods including lectures as well as experiments, probation and clinical training. Students will have around 20 hours of lectures and experiments each week. Courses are assessed through a mixture of quizzes, assignments, experiments, probation and test-paper examinations. Each student has a tutor who is available to offer general guidance and assistance with both academic and personal concerns on an individual basis.

Credit Requirements

The major in Dentistry leads to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery.

Curriculum Class Hours: 3275 (Required Class Hours: 2251, Elective Class Hours: 1024)

Curriculum Credits: 179.75  

(Required Class Hours: 159.25, Elective Class Hours: 20.5)

Graduation Credits: 174.25  

(Required Class Hours: 159.25, Elective Class Hours: 15)

Careers

To develop future dentists who are well prepared and highly competitive.

Graduates are also eligible to attend various postgraduate examinations, including examinations for membership and fellowship of professional institutions, Master’s and Doctor’s degrees in medicine, and board certification examinations.

Academic Objectives

This major is aiming to cultivate high-level and comprehensive talents, who have good science and humanistic quality, solid and wide professional knowledge, strong abilities in innovation and solving practical problems in the field of stomatology. They have the ability of diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases, keeping learning for the whole life and owning good career qualification.

Major Predominance and Characteristics

This major has a lot of leading professors who are good at teaching and clinical practice. The course system in this major is very reasonable. We have the advanced apparatus and equipment in the basic teaching laboratories and clinical skill training laboratories. Moreover, we have our own teaching hospital with more that 60 dental chairs as well as quite a few of provincial hospitals as our clinical practice bases. We put emphasis on the cultivation of practice ability, and we have established a complete cultivation system for improving practice ability. Therefore, our undergraduates have the reputation for high comprehensive capability, strong social competition and good practice ability, and they are all welcomed by the hospitals and other academic institutes.

The achievements of the major “Stomatology” are as follows:

2008: Conferred as the provincial brand specialty by Shandong province;2010: Conferred as national characteristic specialty by MOE;2010: Periodontology is conferred as the provincial quality course by Shandong province

About Tuition

41,000 RMB for the first academic year, and 32,000 RMB per year will be charged as tuition fee in the following four years.

Introduction to Shandong University
 
 
Shandong University, under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, is a key comprehensive university with a long history, a variety of disciplines, strong academic strength, and distinctive characteristics, which has great influence both at home and abroad. Shandong University is a member university of Project 211 and Project 985, two national key construction projects to support the development of high-quality universities.
 
Shandong University is one of the initiative universities of modern Chinese higher education. Its medical school, established in 1864, signified the beginning of modern Chinese higher education. Its main body, Shandong Imperial College (Shandong Da Xue Tang) established in 1901, was the second national university in China, only after the Imperial University of Peking. Moreover, it was the first university to be established and run in accordance with a chartered constitution, and was credited by the imperial court as the model to be followed for all Chinese provinces. The establishment of Shandong Imperial College had not only laid down the foundation for its century-old development, but also served as the blueprint for all the other modern institutes of higher education, which were rising at that time. It blazed a trail in China for the future of institutions of higher learning. Since its birth, Shandong University has gone through several stages of significant growth and change: starting as the Shandong Imperial College, it was then reborn as the National Qingdao University, the National Shandong University, Shandong University, and the Shandong University in its present form, which is the result of the merger of Shandong University, Shandong Medical University and Shandong Industrial University. For more than 100 years, Shandong University has been following the mission of “Preparing talents for the world; Striving for the prosperity and strength of the country.” For this aim, it has cultivated over 400,000 talented young men and women of various specialties, and has been making significant contributions for the country and the regional economic and social development.

As one of the first universities finding its name on the list of Project 211 and Project 985, Shandong University has been developing by leaps and bounds in recent years, and each of its undertakings has reached unprecedented levels. The educational quality and competitiveness of the university have been remarkably improved. This improvement in the quality and capability of teaching has greatly increased both its international clout and its ability to serve the country and the local regions. The university has essentially accomplished its transformation from a teaching and research-oriented university to a research-oriented one. On the list of The Competitiveness of China’s First-rate Universities released recently by the Scientific Evaluation Center of Wuhan University, Shandong University ranks seventh, and the Center also gave the appraisal that Shandong University has been the fastest rising in China for the last two years.

Shandong University comprises 8 campuses (Jinan Central Campus, Hongjialou Campus, Baotuquan Campus, Qianfoshan Campus, Software Campus, Xinglongshan Campus, Qingdao Campus and Weihai Branch) in three different cities (Jinan, Qingdao and Weihai), covering an area of over 533 hectares (including 200 hectares of the Qingdao campus, the construction of which is to be started soon). The university currently has 3 affiliated hospitals, 4 non-subordinate affiliated hospitals and 11 teaching hospitals. It also enjoys a teaching and administrative staff of 10,200 (including those at the Weihai Branch and the 3 affiliated hospitals included). Its full-time student population totals up to 60,000, of which 43,000 are undergraduates, 15,000 are postgraduates and more than 1,600 are international students. It also has an excellent faculty team of 1,046 professors, including 721 Ph.D supervisors. And now there are 6 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Academy of Engineering, 13 distinguished professors from the “National Recruitment Program of Global Experts," 33 distinguished professors and part-time professors from the "Changjiang Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education , 25 winners of the "National Outstanding Youth Foundation” award, 28 posts for distinguished professors and experts from the "Taishan Scholars" of Shandong Province and 8 “National Renowned Teachers”. Two academic innovation teams found themselves in the “Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team” conducted by the Ministry of Education, and another two innovation teams were chosen as thenational “Excellent Innovation Groups”. Shandong University provides 2 national key first-level disciplines (including eight second-level disciplines), 14 national key second-level disciplines, 3 key national second-level disciplines under cultivation, and 60 provincial key disciplines, covering the 4 disciplinary fields of liberal arts, science, engineering and medicine. Such a comprehensive disciplinary system helps it to achieve coordinated development between different disciplines. The university has eight state scientific research platforms, including a key national laboratory, a state engineering technology research center, a state engineering laboratory and a state engineering technology promotion center. It also has 2 state “111 Innovation and Education Planning Projects,” 4 key social science research bases approved by the Ministry of Education, and a large number of provincial key laboratories and provincial engineering technology research centers.

Shandong University is one of those of the largest ranges of academic disciplines in China. There are at present 13 general disciplines for undergraduates and postgraduates, namely philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, military science, management and arts. There are 41 first-level doctoral programs, 55 first-level master degree programs, 28 professional doctoral and master degree programs, 116 programs for undergraduates, 29 mobile post-doctoral research stations, forming a complete system for cultivation of talent.
 
The growth of the university over the years has seen SDU rise to the forefront of many fields in China. In the 1930s and 1950s, when Shandong University was located in Qingdao, it was the home to many nationally famous scholars who paved the way for great success especially in the fields of literature and history.  Up to this day, Shandong University is well-known for its strong liberal arts programs, and published the highly reputable academic journal Literature, History & Philosophy. These two periods also laid a good foundation for the university in natural sciences, enabling it to find itself among the noted institutions in China. Since the merger at the end of the last century, the university’s newly- developed disciplines of financial mathematics, crystal materials, condensed matter physics, colloid and surface chemistry, micro-biology, machinery, material science, cardiovascular functional recovery, new drug manufacturing, and classical Chinese philosophy have all risen to the first-class level within the country, and some are even known abroad.
 
With the opening of the recent National Educational Conference and the implementation of the “Education Planning Outline” in July, 2010, China’s higher education has yet another new opportunity for a historic leap, and all institutions of higher learning are standing at a new historic starting point. Facing the unprecedented opportunity, Shandong University has set a grand educational objective: initially becoming a world-class university by its 120th anniversary. At new historical starting point, Shandong University will seize the opportunity, and adhere to the way of potential tapping, quality promotion and feature building, to the strategy of institution existence by academia, strengthening by talents, prosperity by features, and management by law. Meanwhile, the university is to promote the internationalization of it, implement the Operation for Academic vitalization. With an already strong academic foundation and even more untapped potential, we are sure to achieve the goal of becoming a world-class university.

Introduction

Located in Jinan, in the north of China, Shandong University is consisted of seven campuses: the Main Campus, West campus which is also called Baotu Spring Campus, Qianfo Mountain Campus, the Software Park Campus, Xinglong Mountain Campus, Hong Home Building Campus and, the Medical College. All the international students can live on campus.

Foreign Students' Complex-your new home

The Foreign Students' Complex is set up particularly for the interests of overseas students. It has a tasteful lay-out, where the well-appointed rooms are surrounded by graceful gardens.

The living quarter

The basic single room in the apartment building, where you have available central heating, telephone, television, internet socket etc., will cost $5 per day.

The standard single room in the apartment building, where you have available a toilet, central heating, telephone, television, internet socket etc., will cost $7-$12 per day.

The basic double room in the apartment building, where you have available a toilet, central heating, air conditioner, telephone, television, internet socket etc., will cost $9 per day.

The standard double room in the apartment building, which has available a toilet, central heating, air conditioner, telephone, television, internet socket etc., will cost $12 per day.

For students' convenience, the apartment building has laundry, bathroom, kitchen, and boiler room for public use on every floor.

In the apartment building there is a café, a shop, and a dining hall.

3 Steps to Apply to a Chinese University

1. General Requirements
(1) Applicants must be physically and mentally healthy, friendly to China, have no criminal record, and be non-Chinese citizens holding a valid regular foreign passport. 
(2) Applicants must possess a high school diploma or above. 

2. Language Proficiency Requirements
Chinese-taught Programs 
Applicants must pass the HSK Level 5 examination (180 points or above). Applicants with the highest level of education taught in Chinese are exempt from providing an HSK certificate, but must provide proof of the language of instruction.

3. Applicants must meet the criteria specified in the Notice by the Ministry of Education of Regulating Admission of International Students to China's Higher Education Institutions (Letter No. 12 [2020] of the Ministry of Education).

Note: The exit and entry administration authority of the Chinese public security organ will determine whether the applicant has Chinese nationality in addition to foreign nationality based on the results of the nationality etermination. If it is determined that the applicant holds Chinese nationality after application, admission, or enrollment, the application, admission, or study qualification will be annulled.

1. Photocopy of valid passport
With photo, passport number &expiration date and name included.

2. Passport-sized photo
A passport-sized photo taken recently of the applicant.

3. Graduation certificate of high school
Graduation certificate should be in Chinese or English.If not, it should be translated into Chinese or English and be notarized.

4. Academic transcript of high school

5. Health certificate

Not needed during application. But may required when applying for visa.

6. A photocopy of the pre-medical (FSc.) certificate

Needed only for Pakistan students.

7. Financial guarantee letter from parents

Photocopy of the financial support statement with signature

8. Photocopies of parents' passport or identification documents

For example, photocopy of ID card, photocopy of passport, etc.

9. English proficiency test certificate

For example, IELTS or TOEFL, only for applicant whose native language is not English.

10. Resume

11. Family History

12. Certificate of Employment(If Applicable)