Dental education standards under review

The review aims to simplify requirements, enhance clarity, and introduce areas relevant to today’s dental education landscape.

The regulator said it is committed to ensuring its quality assurance of dental education and training fulfils its primary purpose - to protect patients. The Standards for Education sets out the requirements expected of all pre-registration programmes that lead to registration with the GDC.

These standards are the framework of its quality assurance processes. Providers are expected to meet the standards, which cover patient protection, quality evaluation and review, and student assessment.

Manjula Das, head of education and quality assurance for the GDC, said, “Providers must be aware of their duty to protect the public, ensuring that patient safety and care are paramount. They must have effective policies and procedures in place for the monitoring and review of their programmes, and student assessment must be reliable and valid.