Tag: MFDS

  • The MFDS qualification is changing

    The MFDS (Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery) qualification will be changing over 2026 and 2027.  This is an update on the changes and what they mean for you if you have already passed MFDS, are part-way through MFDS, or plan to sit MFDS in the future. What is the MFDS? The MFDS is…

  • Eligibility criteria – Dental Specialty Fellowship Examinations

    We are pleased to announce that, following extensive discussion and collaboration with stakeholders, we are now able to publish the eligibility criteria for the new Dental Specialty Fellowship Examinations. These examinations offer multiple entry routes—accommodating dentists in formal UK specialty training, those undertaking postgraduate university clinical programmes, and practitioners who have trained overseas or have…

  • 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…

  • 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…