What Is My Foundation Year Path
Why have you chosen this foundation year route?
I have applied to this foundation year course because it's is the best pathway for me to progress onto the Dentistry course which is a career pathway that while studying my A-levels I have developed a strong interest in. The A levels that I took do not meet the entry requirements for me to directly enter the Dentistry course and the notion of going to college was not a pathway I wanted to take. However, I recently found out about this foundation year route and chose it because it provides me with a quicker pathway to attain the correct entry requirements to access the course and study my desired degree. As well as that, this foundation year route will be more beneficial because I will be surrounded …show more content…
To begin with when I went on holiday to South Africa and I met a close family member who had opened her own Dental practise in South Africa, having spoken to her when she visited she encouraged me to explore a career in the field. She pointed me in the right directions and informed me of all options and opportunities that entail a career within the field of Dentistry. I then went on to go to University open days and asked students already studying the course what it was like and the responses that I was given fuelled my ambitions to study the course. Overall my interest in dentistry was a combination of doing my own research into the career prospects and my desire to work within a clinical environment. The Dentistry degree program interests me because it is a very hands-on degree that requires excellent manual dexterity. My love for Art and having been an Art student having to producing intricate pieces of work over long periods of time has trained me to focus, have a good eye for detail and a steady hand to carry out precision work giving me excellent practical skills and manual dexterity. As well as that, the early exposure and experience in a range of settings such as, at the Dental hospital, in the community, at outreach clinics and hospital placements is what further intrigued me about the course. Another reason why I'm interested in a dentistry degree is that it’s a broad field that is ever growing, with constant advancements in treatment and patient care which provides opportunities for further studying and specialization, into areas such oral and maxillofacial radiology, orthodontics and paediatric
I have applied to this foundation year course because it's is the best pathway for me to progress onto the Dentistry course which is a career pathway that while studying my A-levels I have developed a strong interest in. The A levels that I took do not meet the entry requirements for me to directly enter the Dentistry course and the notion of going to college was not a pathway I wanted to take. However, I recently found out about this foundation year route and chose it because it provides me with a quicker pathway to attain the correct entry requirements to access the course and study my desired degree. As well as that, this foundation year route will be more beneficial because I will be surrounded …show more content…
To begin with when I went on holiday to South Africa and I met a close family member who had opened her own Dental practise in South Africa, having spoken to her when she visited she encouraged me to explore a career in the field. She pointed me in the right directions and informed me of all options and opportunities that entail a career within the field of Dentistry. I then went on to go to University open days and asked students already studying the course what it was like and the responses that I was given fuelled my ambitions to study the course. Overall my interest in dentistry was a combination of doing my own research into the career prospects and my desire to work within a clinical environment. The Dentistry degree program interests me because it is a very hands-on degree that requires excellent manual dexterity. My love for Art and having been an Art student having to producing intricate pieces of work over long periods of time has trained me to focus, have a good eye for detail and a steady hand to carry out precision work giving me excellent practical skills and manual dexterity. As well as that, the early exposure and experience in a range of settings such as, at the Dental hospital, in the community, at outreach clinics and hospital placements is what further intrigued me about the course. Another reason why I'm interested in a dentistry degree is that it’s a broad field that is ever growing, with constant advancements in treatment and patient care which provides opportunities for further studying and specialization, into areas such oral and maxillofacial radiology, orthodontics and paediatric