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Widening participation - a comparison of the characteristics of successful UK applicants to the five-year and four-year dental programmes in 2007 and 2008.

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AIM:To compare the demographics (age, sex, ethnicity, social status, disability, country/region) and academic experience (school type) of accepted UK applicants to the five-year and four-year dental programmes in 2007 and 2008. METHODS:Retrospective descriptive analysis was carried out on the University and College Admissions Services (UCAS) data for accepted UK applicants to the five- and four-year dental programmes at UK dental schools in the years 2007 and 2008. Logistic regression was used to model the outcome of dental admission to programmes (four-year vs five-year), controlling for the other explanatory variables. Data were analysed using SPSS v19. RESULTS:In the years 2007 and 2008 over 2,000 UK applicants were accepted on to a dental course (n = 2,274) within the UK. Of these accepted applicants, 84% (n = 1,903) were accepted onto a five-year and 14% (n = 322) onto a four-year, programme. Over half were female for both the five- and four-year programmes (58% cf 59% respectively). One tenth of students accepted to the five-year programme were 'mature' (n = 173) and nearly all of the students to the four-year programme (n = 321). Similar proportions of accepted applicants to both programmes were from minority ethnic groups (46%), with the majority of students being of White or Asian background; however, the four-year programmes accepted a higher proportion of black (4% cf 1%) and 'other' minority ethnic students (8% cf 3%) when compared with the five-year programme. A higher proportion of accepted students to the four-year programmes came from the lowest 'higher/further education participation areas' (POLAR2 groups 1-3) than the five-year programmes (38% cf 28%). Proportionally more accepted applicants to the four-year programmes came from London than the five-year programmes (30%, cf 20%). In contrast, a greater proportion of accepted applicants to the five-year programmes came from Scotland (13% cf 6%), Northern Ireland (9% cf 0%) and Wales (4% cf 2%). When all other factors were controlled, the odds of being accepted to the four-year rather than the five-year programme were higher if the applicants were mature and from Greater London. CONCLUSION:There is little definitive evidence that graduate entry programmes widen access to dentistry when compared with the traditional five-year programme; however, the findings do highlight geographic disparities in access to graduate entry programmes, which are important for policy makers and schools to consider.

journal_name

Br Dent J

journal_title

British dental journal

authors

Niven V,Cabot LB,Gallagher JE

doi

10.1038/sj.bdj.2013.107

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-02-01 00:00:00

pages

117-22

issue

eissn

0007-0610

issn

1476-5373

pii

sj.bdj.2013.107

journal_volume

214

pub_type

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Widening participation - a comparison of the characteristics of successful UK applicants to the five-year and four-year dental programmes in 2007 and 2008.