Government set to announce more Foundation Training places
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- Published: Saturday, 17 March 2012 12:29
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Reports have reached GDPUK that the Chief Dental Officer (CDO) Barry Cockcroft is set to announce that 70-80 extra Foundation Year places will be made available this summer. This may partly defuse the row of the recruitment exercise, but up to 100 newly qualified UK dentists could be left without a job in NHS dentistry. The CDO will be briefing the dental press on the afternoon of Thursday March 1 and will be giving a talk at the Dentistry Show in Birmingham on Friday. |
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In January GDPUK reported that, out of 1109 students who attended interviews, 182 (16.4%) were unsuccessful and even if they graduate this year, may never be able to work as a dentist in the NHS. Professor Chris Franklin COPDEND Chair said he understood that the uncertainty caused by this might be ‘unsettling'
At the end of the first phase of nationally co-ordinated recruitment to Dental Foundation (Vocational) Training in England and Wales, 84% of candidates have already been offered places on training schemes commencing in 2012.
There were 1,190 applications made online and of these, 1,145 eligible candidates, including 97 from European Dental Schools were invited to one of five selection centres held across England. In November 2011, 1,109 candidates attended these assessments and interviews.
There were 927 places available and all were allocated within a week of offers being made. Individual Deaneries will be allocating these successful applicants to individual training practices over the next few months. Further training places are expected to become available later in the year and 133 candidates on a reserve list will be notified about these after 2012 BDS final examinations are concluded. This leaves 49 with no hope of being placed this year.
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