What are the teachers like at Griffith?

In the dentistry faculty, we have a large variety of teachers for each course with a variety of knowledge and personalities. This makes it difficult to answer what the teachers are like... some are good at explaining concepts or demonstrating techniques, while others are good mentors and support students, and some you may not get on with which is a normal part of life.

Our dental courses are composed of multiple disciplines (for example one of our courses has sub-course disciplines of Oral Surgery, Oral Pathology, and Local Anaesthetics).

For each discipline we have a lecture professor in pre-recorded content, a professor that runs the in-person simulation lab component, and multiple lab tutors that critique and mark each student's work. Additionally, when in clinic working on patients, we generally have 3-4 sessions each week with each session having a dedicated tutor.

Generally, clinic and lab tutors answer most student questions since we see these tutors on a daily basis and develop more of a mentor-type relationship.

As for contacting professors outside of class time, some are very responsive to emails, while others request asking questions through cohort class representatives. We have 1-2 Q&A sessions each semester where questions collected from the students are answered.

The main discipline professors tend to do Q&A sessions as they are specialists in charge of the course but also run the Post Graduate Programs, do research, and often supervise Masters students research, which leaves little time to answer student questions.