Higher Specialist Training Documents and Curricula
New Dental Specialty Curricula
The General Dental Council (GDC) has published new dental specialty training curricula. These will be implemented for new trainees commencing dental specialty training from September 2024. Copies of the new curricula can be found on the GDC website.
Syllabus
SACs are developing a syllabus to accompany the new curriculum for each dental specialty. Those already agreed are attached below along with supplementary papers.
Oral Surgery
- Orthodontic Syllabus ST13 2025
- Logbook Calculator
- Participation in Research Guidance
- OLAT
- OCP-ST2
- OCP-ST3
- ISCP Action List
- Assessment and Interpretation of CBCT Radiograph
- Changing an archwire with requirements for wire bending or auxiliary placement
- Digital Planning for aligners – prescription submission
- Digital Planning for aligners – set-up review
- Interproximal enamel reduction
- Intra-oral scan for study models
- Lateral Cephalometric Radiograph Superimposition
Paediatric Dentistry
Dental Specialty Curricula Pre-2024
Some trainees already in training will transition to the new curricula. Others further into their training will remain on the old curricula. These can be accessed below:
Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology
Dental Public Health
Endodontics
Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
Oral Medicine
Oral Microbiology
Oral Surgery
Orthodontics
Paediatric Dentistry
Periodontics
Prosthodontics
Restorative Dentistry
Special Care Dentistry