Program Overview

Specialist training in Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine

Duration and Credits

• Duration: 5 years
• Credits: 300

Place of study

• Tromsø

Application deadline

• 1 October 2025

Admission requirements

• Norwegian authorization as a dentist
• At least 2 years' experience from general practice

Target group

• Dentists with an interest in examining and treating patients with oral surgery and oral medicine problems

Application code

• 3120

What are you learning?

Knowledge

• Can behave as a professional practitioner of the specialist area towards patients and colleagues
• Has in-depth knowledge of basic oral biology
• Has extensive knowledge in pharmacology, including drug side effects
• Has extensive knowledge of immunological processes, diseases that are immunologically conditioned and treatment with drugs that affect the inflammation process
• Has extensive knowledge in microbiology and diseases that are microbiologically conditioned
• Has extensive knowledge of diseases that are genetically determined

Skills

• Can diagnose diseases of the teeth, jaws and adjacent structures
• Can identify indications and contraindications for surgical treatment
• Can evaluate laboratory tests
• Can perform all types of surgical interventions in teeth, jaws and adjacent structures
• Can critically evaluate specialist literature
• Can receive referred patients for counselling, advanced diagnostics and necessary surgical treatment

General competence

• Can collaborate with other specialties
• Can present the field to other personnel groups and the public
• Can give advice/guidance to colleagues in the field of oral surgery and oral medicine
• Can provide continuing education courses for all dental health personnel
• Can provide clinical guidance to students and specialist candidates in oral surgery and oral medicine

Job opportunities

• Specialists in oral surgery and oral medicine will be able to work in private practice, at competence centres, in hospitals and in academia

Degree name

• Completed studies provide the basis for applying to the Norwegian Directorate of Health for approval as a specialist in oral surgery and oral medicine

Structure of the study

• See the subjects you can take on this course

Study plan

• Ranking instructions-NOS study start H2025
• Curriculum specialist training in oral surgery and oral medicine (005)

Teaching and examination language

• The language of instruction is, as a rule, Norwegian or Scandinavian, but certain subjects can also be taught in English

Teaching and examination

• Scope of work: In order to achieve the learning objectives, students must expect to work 40 hours a week with their studies
• Learning activities: The theoretical education consists of courses, lectures and seminars
• Knowledge test: Written and oral tests at the end of each semester
• Practical-clinical skills: Reported through regular follow-up

Practice

• The clinical teaching involves patient treatment with guidance
• Documentation is required that the candidate has participated in all parts of the specialist education

Exchange

• One will make use of the internationalization agreements that UiT has at all times
• As of today, the other teaching centers for oral surgery and oral medicine have collaborations with: Malmø/Lund, Karolinska in Stockholm, Aarhus, Boston, South Africa to name a few