Child Protection and the Dental Team CPD

Developed in partnership with Dr Jenny Harris and COPDEND to complement Child Protection (link) https://www.bda.org/childprotection and the Dental Team. This educational resource will help you recognise and respond to abuse and neglect.

Availability: all users
Content: quiz
Indicative GDC development outcomes: A B C D
3hrs verifiable CPD verifiable CPD

Aim
To provide members of the dental team with an introduction to safeguarding children in dental practice.

Objectives

be aware of your responsibilities with respect to child protection

be able to recognise the presenting features of child abuse and neglect

understand your role within current multi-agency child protection procedures

be motivated and enabled to follow local child protection procedures correctly

be able to participate in further multi-agency training

know where to find additional sources of support and advice

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BDA-CRUK Oral Cancer Recognition Toolkit CPD

Developed in partnership with Cancer Research UK to complement the Oral Cancer Recognition Toolkit. This comprehensive toolkit will improve your knowledge of the prevention and detection of oral cancer.

Availability: all users
Content: quiz
Indicative GDC development outcomes: A B C D
3hrs verifiable CPD verifiable CPD

Aim
Improve your knowledge of the prevention and detection of oral cancer, including what to look out for and when and how to respond

Objectives

Gain an improved understanding of the risk factors for oral cancer

Have improved confidence in advising patients on the prevention of oral cancer

Be able to detect a range of suspicious mouth, tonsil, tongue and lip signs, and also neck lumps

Have increased confidence in referring urgent and non-urgent suspicious cases to secondary care

Be able to help differentiate between recurrence of malignancy and treatment-related effects

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