Year	Papers	Points
1st year	Health Sciences First Year Course Note: Students seeking admission to the second year of the programme via the Health Sciences First Year category will be required to achieve a satisfactory mark in a standard diagnostic English test or another approved measure of achievement.	126
2nd year	DENT 261 The Dentist and the Patient 1	40
	DENT 262 Biomedical Sciences 1	65
	DENT 263 Dental Epidemiology and Public Health 1	15
3rd year	DENT 361 The Dentist and the Patient 2	72
	DENT 362 Biomedical Sciences 2	36
	DENT 363 Dental Epidemiology and Public Health 2 or	12
	DENT 364 * Dentistry in the New Zealand Context	72
4th year	DENT 461 The Dentist and the Patient 3	90
	DENT 462 Biomedical Sciences 3	18
	DENT 463 Dental Epidemiology and Public Health 3	12
5th year	DENT 531 The Dentist and Patient Care	86
	DENT 533 The Dentist in the Community	16
	DENT 552 Biomedical Sciences 4	18
	* DENT 364 is available only for approved students admitted under articulated agreements with Partnership Programmes and other universities and having previously passed appropriate courses; students who pass the paper will be credited with the First, Second, and Third Year courses of the BDS programme.