Where a dentistry lecturer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a dentistry lecturer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Dentistry lecturers are subject professors, teachers, or lecturers, and often doctors who instruct students who have obtained an upper secondary education diploma in their own specialised field of study, dentistry, which is predominantly academic in nature. They work with their university research assistants and university teaching assistants for the preparation of lectures and of exams, for grading papers and exams, for leading laboratory practices, and for leading review and feedback sessions for the students. They also conduct academic research in their respective field of dentistry, publish their findings and liaise with other university colleagues.
Also known as dentistry lector, dentistry teacher, dental sciences lecturer, lecturer in dentistry, clinical lecturer in dentistry, dentistry docent, dentistry instructor, dental science lecturer, dentistry professor, professor of dentistry studies, university lecturer in dentistry, university clinical lecturer in dentistry.
Professionals 88 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: architecture lecturer, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A dentistry lecturer needs 34 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- clinical disciplines in dentistry health and welfare
- dental anatomy health and welfare
- dentistry science health and welfare
- mouth anatomy health and welfare
- oral surgery health and welfare
- teach dentistry communication, collaboration and creativity
- perform reconstructive oral surgery assisting and caring
- surgery health and welfare
- compile course material communication, collaboration and creativity
- instructional strategies education
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a dentistry lecturer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- anthropology lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
- archaeology lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
- architecture lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
- art studies lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
- business lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
- chemistry lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
- classical languages lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
- computer science lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
- earth science lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
- economics lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
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Dentistry lecturer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a dentistry lecturer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.