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
AimTo 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
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
AimImprove 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