What is CPD?
Continuing Professional Development or CPD is simply a method of ensuring that you achieve the right abilities to do your job and maintain/enhance your expertise. It embraces everything that you do to improve your job performance and your ‘lifelong employability’.
CPD hours required; you will need to have 150 hours of CPD in any 5 year period. There are certain courses which the GDC have stated are compulsory; Medical Emergencies and CPR, Infection Control and Radiation and Radiological Protection along with legal and ethical issues and handling of complaints
Fifty of these hours will need to be ‘verified’. This means that when you have attended a course/study day, there are clear educational objectives for the purpose of the day. You will be able to leave feedback via an evaluation sheet or questionnaire and you will leave with a Certificate of Attendance as proof.
The remaining 100 hours can be ‘general’ or ‘non- verifiable’. These are the hours you may spend reading journals, researching on-line, or doing in-house training. This must be recorded as well as the verifiable hours. For FAQ and full explanations on CPD
Click on this link to the GDC Website and using the search box write ‘CPD’ and enter.
‘Failure to comply with the CPD hours will result in your facing removal from the register. This means you will not be able to work as a Dental Care Professional (DCP) anywhere in the UK’