Requirements

Applicants should have graduated as a dentist (DDS or DMD) from a recognized institution and must be eligible for permanent license for general dental practice in the Netherlands. Before you can start this postgraduate program in Orthodontics, you have to be registered as a dentist in the Netherlands (BIG registration).

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Education Courses One-year postgraduate program in Orthodontics

About this program

The one-year program usually is part of an orthodontic education program in Germany. The program is tailored to the needs and requirements of the German program and resident. The starting date of the one-year program is always discussed once a candidate is really interested. The resident performs patient treatment with emphasis on cleft and craniofacial patients, under supervision of an experienced orthodontist. Furthermore, the resident attends theoretical seminars on various topics, journal clubs, treatment planning sessions, and participates in other activities as agreed upon.

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Jacqueline Verhoeven
Coordinator specialist training in Orthodontics

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Applying

If you are interested in our one-year program you can send in your motivational letter and your CV. You may be invited for an interview.

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Applying

If you are interested in our one-year program you can send in your motivational letter and your CV, see below for contact information. You may be invited for an interview. 

You have to be registered as a dentist in the Dutch BIG-register before you can start. 

Contact information

For more information or to apply, please contact Jacqueline Verhoeven, coordinator specialist training in orthodontics (+31 24 361 88 24 ) or Jacqueline.Verhoeven@radboudumc.nl.

In short

  • German dentists who want to do their academic year.

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    The one-year program usually is part of an orthodontic education program in Germany. The program is tailored to the needs and requirements of the German program and resident. The start of the one-year program is always discussed once a candidate is really interested. The resident attends theoretical seminars on various topics, journal clubs, treatment planning sessions, and participates in other activities as agreed upon.

    Patient treatment takes place under supervision and a rotation is done in the cleft palate craniofacial unit.