Professor Alan Gilmour

Overview

• I am Professor of Restorative Dentistry
• I am year lead for the Final year of the BDS course (Year 5)
• Much of my time is spent in the administration of the undergraduate programmes ensure that these function well. In such a specialised field these programmes are very intense involving didactic teaching, simulated clinical experience and real clinical experience on patients.
• In addition I spend around 3 sessions direct teaching plus 2 sessions of personal clinical work
• My current research interests are related to the transition of dental undergraduates into the workplace and particularly into Foundation Training. I have also been involved, as an external party, in the quality assurance the the new "Satisfactory completion of Foundation Training" for COPDEND.
• What gives me the most pleasure in my job - seeing new students straight from School develop over the 5 years to become competent dentists in their own right and then seeing them a few years later as confident and successful professional.

Educational Research - transition from undergraduate to vocational trainee (DF1)

Selected Projects

Eluants from Dental Materials. - This is an ongoing area of work looking at what is released from some dental materials and the effect that these may have locally and systemically. To datework there have been 1 PhD and 2 MPhil$acirc; s that I have supervised in this area.

Mineralised Tissue Group $acirc; In collaboration with Dr$acirc; s Sloan and Waddington this work is investigating the effect of dental materials on the repair and regeneration of mineralised dental tissues.

Transition from undergraduate to vocational trainee $acirc; this project is investigating the expectations of vocational trainers of new graduates and whether these expectations are being met.