LONDON, UK: The General Dental Council (GDC) has opened a public consultation that invites UK-based dental professionals to share their ideas, comments and views on the short- and long-term future of professional learning and development in dentistry.
The consultation represents the GDC’s next step towards achieving a more effective system of continuing professional development (CPD), a process that commenced with the regulator’s 2017 paper Shifting the Balance: A Better, Fairer System of Dental Regulation and its introduction of the enhanced CPD scheme in 2018.
The GDC, having built a robust base of evidence, said in a press release regarding this consultation that it is opening a conversation about what meaningful CPD is, how it can be achieved, and what the obstacles might be that prevent dental professionals from accessing and undertaking it.
Head of GDC Policy and Research Rebecca Cooper said: “While enhanced CPD made some good progress towards increasing professional ownership of CPD and placing greater emphasis on reflection and planning, we know a more supportive model of learning can be achieved to provide dental professionals with the information and tools they need to meet and maintain high professional standards and quality patient care.”
“Some dental professionals feel that CPD is little more than a tick box exercise. Our proposals look at how we might move to a system that is flexible and responsive for the full range of dental professionals and where professionals can increasingly take responsibility for their own development, without the need for heavy-handed enforcement,” she continued.
“This discussion document represents a significant milestone in achieving this goal and we really want to hear from as many people as possible about where lifelong learning should go from here,” she concluded.
The consultation, detailed in a document titled Shaping the Direction of Lifelong Learning for Dental Professionals, was opened to the public on 11 July 2019 and will close on 3 October 2019. Responses and views can be submitted online.
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