Property and Campus Services

Melbourne Oral Health Training and Education Centre (MOHTEC)

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Melbourne Dental School Preclinical Simulation Laboratory and Melbourne Dental Clinic
Construction work was successfully completed in March 2012 and the specialist equipment installation on levels 1 and 2 commenced in March and is moving at a rapid rate. Loose furniture items have been installed on site in preparation for the opening of the clinic. The front entrance is now open for students to access the preclinical simulation laboratory.

Due to the nature of equipment installation work occurring on site, all requests to access levels 1 and 2 must be made to Rosemary O’Brien, Senior Project Manager.
Population Health staff can continue to access the basement archive store via Church St. 

Project Scope and Vision

The Melbourne Oral Health Training and Education Centre (MOHTEC) comprises a 50-chair specialist-focused, private-patient Melbourne Dental Clinic and a 50-seat preclinical simulation laboratory. The centre will enable an essential expansion of the Melbourne Dental School (MDS) and the transformation of current dental education through a vertically-integrated, clinically-oriented suite of programs. It will provide the basis for the University to position itself as a world-leader in the provision of dental education and training.

Enhanced Teaching and Learning

MOHTEC will give more students more hours of higher-quality clinical experience, both through high-fidelity clinical simulation and direct patient-contact in a working clinic delivering general and specialist treatments. Under the Melbourne Model, aspiring dentists will gain foundational scientific and biomedical knowledge at an undergraduate level and then enter a new graduate professional-entry Doctor of Dental Surgery degree (DDS) with an advanced clinical training focus. Once qualified, dentists will earn specialist qualifications through the Doctor of Clinical Dentistry (DCD). They will be trained alongside future dental hygienists and therapists studying the Bachelor of Oral Health (BOH).

Infrastructure and operations

The preclinical simulation laboratory component of MOHTEC has been incorporated into the MDS with fifty sophisticated workstations, integrated with computer-aided learning suites that include simulated patient dummies.  This enables students to develop high-level practical skills by offering a full simulation of the clinical environment.

After extensive learning in the preclinical simulation laboratory, students will gain wide-ranging patient contact clinical experience in the new Melbourne Dental Clinic.  The clinic will be managed and operated as a private commercial entity. It will feature 50 dental chairs comprising 10 general, 4 multipurpose and 36 specialist chairs. The specialist chairs will be split between four specialities: orthodontics, endodontics, periodontics and prosthodontics.

Project Location

Located on the Parkville Campus and located at 723 Swanston Street, Carlton.
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Consultants

Project Management: Property and Campus Services
Contractor: Built
Principal Architect: Blomquist + Wark
Building Surveyor:  Davis Langdon
Quantity Surveyor: Aquenta
Services and Structural Engineer: Meinhardt
Audio visual consultant: CHW
CSSD consultant: Steam Consulting
Specialist Equipment Consultant: Alldent
Dental Chair and preclinical simulation unit supplier: Sirona
Sterilisation Equipment Supplier: Gallay

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