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Information on the Dental Foundation Training Application processs can be found below - see download. Please note that application forms are now available in both pdf and word format , should you wish to submit a typed form.

• Eligibility criteria is as follows:-

• The eligibility categories for Dental Foundation Training (Year 1) are as follows:-

   All UK citizens are eligible if they have qualified or will qualify in the Summer from a UK or EEA Dental School

The following do not fulfil the requirements for funding, and would only be eligible if a PCT chose to provide funding.  We have, however, had no indications that any of the KSS PCTs will wish to provide funding.

(a)  UK citizens who have qualified outside the UK and outside Europe (would also have to do the International Qualifying Examination).

(b)  Non UK, but EEA citizens qualifying from a UK or EEA Dental School

Non UK, non EEA citizens who are qualified dentists would not be eligible and can do vocational training by assessment of competencies.

Only dentists who are about to qualify this Summer or are within 18 months of qualification at application are eligible, i.e. qualified after October 2008.

EEA countries - Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK. (NB while Switzerland is not in the EEA, Swiss nationals have the same rights as EEA nationals

About Dental Foundation Training

I am responsible for the central administration and management of Dental Foundation Training in General Dental Practice for our four KSS Foundation Training Schemes in Brighton, Canterbury, Guildford and Tunbridge Wells. I also provide administration support for our Regional Director for Dental Foundation Training and the Dental Foundation Course Programme Directors.

Foundation Training in General Dental Practice is mandatory in the UK for all dental graduates from UK schools who wish to practice in the National Health Service under their own contract number. Recent graduates join an approved practice as a salaried assistant with a General Dental Practitioner who has been appointed as a trainer for a period of one year full-time (or up to two years part-time). All Foundation Dental Practitioners (trainees) attend a course of 30 study days over one year.

General Dental Practitioners may apply to become a trainer and, if short-listed, the applicants attend a formal interview with a selection panel. Application forms are available from October each year (and can be downloaded from this website).  The deadline for receipt of applications is 20 November. In 2010, interviews will be conducted at the Deanery offices in London during January. All administration, in respect of the trainer application and recruitment process, is handled by myself.

Newly appointed trainers are required to attend induction courses and experienced trainers are required to attend update courses on a regular basis. These are arranged by the Associate Dean, Dental Foundation Training and administered by myself. 

I am usually in the KSS Deanery office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays each week. My office telephone number is 020 7415 3424 and my e-mail address is ihandy@kssdeanery.ac.uk.