Certificate III in Dental Assisting

No occupational licencing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

The HLT35021 Certificate III in Dental Assisting allows direct entry into this qualification at the time of publication in training.gov.au. However, the Menzies Institute of Technology requires candidates to meet its admission requirements prior to enrolling into this qualification to ensure that they have the required skills and knowledge to successfully complete the qualification at this AQF level. Please refer to MITP11 Admissions Policy and Procedure for further information if required. This consists of:

Course Duration:

Full time: over a period of 36 weeks

• 36 weeks of delivery is inclusive of 8 weeks of Work Place Professional Experience Placement and 4 weeks of holiday breaks.
• Supervised Classroom Sessions of 20 hours per week on campus.
• 350 hours of dental assisting work that involves:
  – 300 hours in a real dental clinic workplace as Work Place Professional Experience Placement (37.5 hours per week for 8 weeks)
  – 50 hours in a simulated dental clinic workplace environment at the Menzies Campus (allocated during the delivery weeks)
• Additional Training Support hours including any learning assistance provided to students after the classroom sessions or on additional request by learners outside of supervised classroom session hours either via face-to-face or phone, skype or email to support learners to undertake their individual self-learning activities and assessments outside of classroom hours.
• Completion of Individual Learning and Reflection/Self-Paced learning hours are not monitored by the Trainers/Assessors and form part of “unsupervised hours”. Trainers will ask students questions related to their Individual Learning after each week’s class session to ensure and verify that students have gained the knowledge related to the quizzes.

Note: No classes on public holidays. If any class days fall on a public holiday then the session with be allocated to another day in that week so that the amount of training supervised hours are consistent regardless of public holiday.

Refer to Course Handbook below for detailed information on the breakdown of delivery/training hours for each unit.

Units of Competency:

No prerequisite and/or corequisite units in this qualification.

Credit Transfer (CT), recognition of prior learning (RPL), professional experience and accreditation from a professional body can reduce the duration of your study by acknowledging your earlier, relevant experience. Credit and exemptions will be assessed consistent with the principles of the Menzies Institute of Technology.  

Please refer to MITP15 RPL and Credit Transfer Policy and Procedure for further details. 

• Written Test
• Simulated Tasks
• Project
• Work placement tasks & Observation

Melbourne, Victoria.

This course will only be delivered and assessed in Victoria and not offered for interstate students.

Certificate III in Dental Assisting – Course

Domestic Student Handbook

International Student Handbook

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