Over A Hundred Dental Graduates Struggling To Find Training Places
More than a hundred final year students and dental graduates have not been given a training place, it has been revealed.
A total of 107 students and graduates are currently without a training place and the British Dental Association has issued a call for places to be found for those who are set to miss out before the second round of allocations takes place later in the summer. Without foundation training, dentists are not able to gain the qualifications and registration needed to work in the NHS.
Dr Judith Husband, chair of the ethics, education and dental team at the British Dental Association, has penned a letter to the Department of Health outlining the potential implications for the NHS and the dental students if places are not found. A change in legislation means that all dentists must complete Dental Foundation Training in order to practise in an NHS surgery in the UK and this means that more than a hundred students are facing employment dilemmas in the future.
Dr Husband said it is of paramount importance that the system prioritises UK students and enables them to progress in their careers as dentists following many years of hard work and study at university.
This is the third year the BDA is campaigning for more foundation training places; however, the number of candidates without a place this year is significantly higher than the figure for 2013 and 2012.
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