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Guidance

We have prepared guidance on our education procedures for course providers and awarding bodies. Find out how to submit a course for approval, how we run our inspections and how we judge whether a course is sufficient for GDC registration.

Download 'How we check the quality of dental education and training' (PDF)

UK Dental Schools

We organise regular cycles of inspections to all UK dental schools to check the standards of the UK dental degree programmes.

UK DCP Schools

We also inspect existing and new DCP education providers. For each inspection visit, Inspectors produce reports on their findings which will contain recommendations for improvement.

Copies of all these reports are available in this section of the website.

Continuing Professional Development for Dental Care Professionals

Category (Education)

Continuing Professional Development for Dental Care Professionals is a general guide to our compulsory CPD requirements.

CPD for Dentists

Category (Education)

Continuing Professional Development for Dentists is a general guide to our CPD scheme

Inspections of DCP programmes

Category (Education)

A list of all reports made by GDC Inspectors of inspections to DCP programmes

Developing the Dental Team

Category (Education)

Developing the Dental Team: Curricula Frameworks for Registrable Qualifications for Professionals Complementary to Dentistry sets out curricula requirements for qualifications which will lead to GDC registration for each of the six groups of professionals, now called dental care professionals, who have begun registering with the GDC.

The First Five Years

Category (Education)

The First Five Years sets out the content and scope of the GDC education programmes for dental undergraduates. This third edition is an interim document ,which will stay in force until 2010.