Special Care Dentistry - Training and Mediation.

The GDC agreed in December 2005 to the principle of the establishment of a Specialist List in Special Care Dentistry (SCD). We understand that the Council meeting in June will be asked to finalise this decision and hope to see a Specialist List in SCD in the latter part of this year.

The Joint Advisory Committee for SCD (which was the committee preceding the recently established Specialist Advisory Committee for SCD) has worked on what might be appropriate mediation criteria for those clinicians aspiring to be on that specialist list, should the GDC follow the same process as it has in the past in establishing new specialist lists.

The Specialist Advisory Committee in SCD agreed that publication of this work might be helpful to prospective applicants in preparing their applications. This is only guidance as to what might be required by the GDC. No substantive advice is available at present.

The most recent Training Document is also published here for the benefit of our members.

Click here to download (PDF) the mediation criteria for the Specialist List in Special Care Dentistry.

Click here to download (PDF)the training programme in special care dentistry.