Author: Jenny Clark

  • Exam Boards kick off design of a ‘new generation’ of exams

    The design of 10 Dental Specialty Fellowship Examinations is now underway following completion of the planning stages of a new, joined-up approach to assessment. Dental Specialty Fellowship Examinations Board Chair, Professor Sondos Albadri, and education expert Dr Yvonne Hurst, met with members of the 10 new exam boards to begin work on the new exams…

  • Dentists invited to become examiners for new assessments

    2 April 2025 The newly-appointed exam board chairs for the Dental Specialty Fellowship Examinations and revised MFDS are calling for experienced clinicians to join them to support the next generation of assessment. Ten leading dentists were appointed as exam board chairs in March. They are now inviting other experienced clinicians to become members of the…

  • Leading paediatric dentist appointed as Chair of exams board

    6 February 2025 Professor Sondos Albadri, an honorary consultant in Paediatric Dentistry and Vice Dean at Liverpool University, has been appointed as the first Chair of the Dental Specialty Fellowship Examinations Board. The appointment follows an agreement between four Royal Colleges in the UK and Ireland to work together on a new, joined-up approach to…