CGDent to launch professional framework for general dental professionals
NewsPosted by: Dental Design 27th May 2022
The College of General Dentistry has announced that it will be launching its much-anticipated Professional Framework next month.
The Professional Framework will describe the knowledge, skills and other attributes that primary care dental professionals may aspire to at different stages of their career, and underpins the College’s Career Pathways programme. An initial framework published last year identifies five domains:
- Clinical and technical: the capability to diagnose, to advise and to treat
- Professionalism: the conduct and behaviour to engage patient trust and confidence
- Reflection: awareness of personal impact, abilities and limitations
- Development: commitment and capability to improve the service to patients
- Agency: the ability to resolve solutions independently and through others
The College of General Dentistry is the independent professional body into which the Faculty of General Dental Practice transferred last year. The UK’s only medical college run by and for oral health professionals, it is unique in welcoming all dental and oral health professionals with relevant postgraduate qualifications into full membership.
The creation of career pathways for general dental practice was a key founding purpose of the College, which has been developing sets of progressive steps for each dental team role in order to provide purpose and direction for dental careers, to enhance professional standing, and to help retain and nurture a motivated workforce.
These are being mapped out by four working groups representing dentists, dental hygienists & therapists, dental nurses and dental technicians, working together through a programme board chaired by Professor Avijit Banerjee and a reference group chaired by Dr Shamir Mehta.
The Professional Framework will be launched at the inaugural College of General Dentistry Fellows’ Summer Reception, which takes place on Wednesday 15 June at Barber-Surgeons’ Hall in London.
The College’s Career Pathways programme is generously supported by Colgate.
