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Webinar – 26 November 2024
This webinar was held on 26 November to introduce the Training Programme Directors and Associate Deans to the new Dental Specialty Fellowship Examinations. As the work to develop this initiative continues, elements may change and new information will be made available on this website.
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Dental specialties assessment strategy goes live
Update to the news release of 13 November – 13 December 2024 The sentence starting, “Dental trainees….” relating to transitional arrangements has been updated to remove the text: “will generally complete their training with the existing curriculum and the existing membership and fellowship examinations”. 13 November 2024 The new assessment strategy for nine dental specialties…
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Progress made towards a joined-up approach to summative assessment
20 September 2024 Dentists entering specialty training from September 2024 will follow the revised UK General Dental Council (GDC) curricula and will benefit from a new approach to examinations provision. The new examinations are being developed following an agreement from the four Surgical Royal Colleges of the UK and in Ireland to work together on…
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Intercollegiate approach to assessment
19 August 2024 The General Dental Council (GDC) has published newly revised curricula for dental specialties, which will be introduced for trainees beginning their specialty training from September 2024. The current system of assessment has a number of different approaches in use by the specialties and inconsistencies between these, with exams administered by individual Royal…
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Surgical Royal Colleges work together towards new dental exams
2 May 2024 The UK’s three surgical royal colleges are working together to develop a joined-up approach to assessment for dental specialties.This follows publication of the General Dental Council (GDC)’s newly revised curricula for dental specialties, which will be introduced from September 2024. Currently, most dental specialties have multiple versions of the specialty exam, administered…