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What is a VDP
Application Form (PDF 5)
Vocational Dental Practitioners
Aims & Objectives of vocational training
Overall Aim Objectives
To enhance clinical and administrative competence and promote high standards through relevant postgraduate training to meet the needs of general dental practice, and in particular:
- To enable trainees to practise and improve their skills.
- To introduce trainees to all aspects of general dental practice.
- To identify a trainee’s personal strengths and weaknesses and balance them through a planned programme of training.
- To promote oral health and quality dental care for patients.
- To develop further and implement peer- and self-review, and promote awareness of the need for professional education, training and audit as a continuing process.
Objectives
To enable the trainee:
- To make competent and confidant professional decisions including decisions for referrals to other services.
- To demonstrate that s/he is working within the guidelines regarding the ethics and confidentiality of general dental practice.
- To implement regulations and guidelines for the delivery of safe practice.
- To know how to obtain appropriate advice on, and practical experience of, legal and financial aspects of practice.
- To demonstrate that s/he has acquired skill and knowledge in the psychology of care of patients and can work successfully as a member of a practice team.
- To demonstrate the necessary knowledge and skills to organise and manage a practice.
From: cvtoffice.org.uk/shainfo_b.htm
In association with Manchester University Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Dentistry.
Jobshop
There was a jobshop to recruit Trainees, (VDPs), for the 2004 - 2005 year on 24th March 2004.
It was held at the Britannia Sachas Hotel, Tib Street, Manchester (You can obtain directions and a map from the hotel's website - please note that, if you make a booking with the hotel, you are responsible for the cost).
Potential VDPs were able to pick up a trainer booklet at the jobshop after 9:30 am on that day. They were able to meet the trainers (including Ian Redfearn) there between 1400 and 1600.