<div style="font-family: arial; color: #262626; font-size: 10pt">We are currently at the early stages of reviewing our CPD requirements for registrants. Your early comments are valuable and will help us develop our proposals in a way that enables us to take your experience and ideas into account.<span> </span>Later in the process we plan to hold a formal public consultation on our draft proposals. This is likely to be during 2012.</div>
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<div style="font-family: arial; color: #262626; font-size: 10pt"><div><strong>CPD review questionnaire</strong></div>
<div><span><span>Our CPD</span> review survey is now closed but you are still able to email any questions or comments about the CPD review and your CPD experiences to:</span> <span><a href="mailto:CPDReview@gdc-uk.org">CPDReview@gdc-uk.org</a></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt"><span><strong><span>CPD review research</span></strong></span></div></span><div><span><span>As part of the CPD review we are conducting a number of research studies.</span> </span><span>
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<div><span><strong>Literature Review: Impact of CPD in Dentistry</strong></span></div>
<div><span>In August 2011 we commissioned a team of researchers, under the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK), to conduct a literature review on the impact of CPD in dentistry. The final report is now available:</span></div>
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<div><span><a title="Opens in new window" href="/Aboutus/Researchandconsultations/Documents/ImpactOfCPDInDentistry.pdf" target="_blank"><img class="ms-asset-icon ms-rtePosition-4" src="/_layouts/images/pdf16.gif" alt=""/>Impact of CPD in Dentistry</a> (979KB, PDF)</span></div>
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<div><span><strong>Registrant and provider perspectives on mandatory CPD in dentistry in the UK</strong></span></div>
<div><span>We are currently conducting a study into registrant and CPD provider perspectives on CPD.<span> </span>We have commissioned ERS:R (Electoral Reform Services Research) to conduct an online survey of a random representative sample of dentists and DCPs.<span> </span>Some GDC registrants are now being invited to take part in this study that will make an important contribution to the CPD review.</span></div></div>
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