Dentist members practising in the UK are reminded that Saturday 28 January 2023 is the deadline to submit your annual CPD statement detailing professional development activity undertaken between 1 January and 31 December 2022.
The General Dental Council requires dentists to complete a minimum of 100 hours of verifiable CPD every five years, including at least 10 hours during any two-year period, and to submit an annual CPD statement whether or not you have undertaken any CPD in the preceding 12 months.
The College offers members access to a wide range of CPD opportunities:
CPD library
Free, on-demand access to a library of around 1000 hours of certified, GDC-compliant CPD. To access the content, log in to www.prodentalcpd.com using the details sent to you following your transfer/entry into College membership.
This includes recordings of over 30 College webinars held to date, which are also available to non-members for a small fee:
- Practice ownership: an introduction
- How to get the best from your career in dentistry
- Leadership in dentistry
- Professionalism in dentistry
- Antimicrobial prescribing in dentistry
- Treatment planning for carious primary and permanent molars
- Duty of candour: the legal and regulatory risk
- Social inequalities: the impact on dental study applications
- Sustainability in dentistry and healthcare
- Non-surgical facial aesthetics: an introduction
- Non-surgical facial aesthetics: clinical cases and applied anatomy
- Non-surgical facial aesthetics: complications
- Research and critical appraisal of evidence: how to read a paper properly
- Research and critical appraisal of evidence: statistics in the real world
- Research and critical appraisal of evidence: meta-analyses and their appraisal
- Leadership in infection prevention and control
- Preventing wrong tooth extraction
- Domestic abuse in dentistry – speak out
- Looking after your data
- Making dental extractions predictable
- LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion in dentistry
- Women in dentistry
- Mental health wellness framework
- Dementia-friendly dentistry
- Managing traumatic dental injuries
- Safe use of X-ray equipment
- The College of General Dentistry
- Returning to dentistry after COVID-19: implementing safe Practice
- COVID-19: your vaccination questions answered
- COVID-19: urgent dental care
- COVID-19: redeployment
- COVID-19: the risk-based approach
- COVID-19: guidance on the safe management of general dental practice
Live webinars
Live, College-hosted webinars covering a wide range of subjects are available free of charge every month, powered by ProDental. Upcoming events include:
- Record-keeping in the real world of general dental practice – 12 December 2022
- Creating a positive patient safety culture in dentistry – 10 January 2023
- Introduction to orthodontics: assessment, diagnosis and case selection – 17 January 2023
- Introduction to orthodontics: fixed appliances and functionals – 24 January 2023
- Dental care for patients with diabetes – 26 January 2023
- Introduction to orthodontics: retention – 31 January 2023
- Complaints handling: a step-by-step approach – 7 February 2023
- Supporting staff through menopause – 16 February 2023
- Mentoring in implant dentistry – 16 March 2023
Members also have free access to all of ProDental’s weekly live webinars.
And if you miss a live webinar, you’ll find it in the online library within around 24 hours.
Stay up to date with our upcoming webinars at https://cgdent.uk/events/
Study Days
Members receive heavily discounted attendance fees for study days and events. The following are currently scheduled:
Friday 17 February 2023, Stride Dental Academy, Bangor
Friday-Saturday 24-25 March 2023, London
Courses
The courses for the College’s educational qualifications provide significant numbers of CPD hours. The following are currently offered:
- Postgraduate Certificate in Non-Surgical Facial Aesthetics
- Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma in Restorative & Aesthetic Dentistry
- Postgraduate Diploma in Primary Care Orthodontics
Third party resources
The College also recommends the following online resources developed by third parties, each of which offers free CPD:
- Antimicrobial stewardship e-learning modules (3 hours’ CPD)
- Alcohol (Identification and Brief Advice) for dental teams (1 hour’s CPD)
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This article was originally published on 22 September 2022 and was updated on 24 November 2022 and 8 December 2022