The Denplan Stairway Programme

This is a new, exciting and flexible way to gain verifiable CPD and credits towards an MSc through attendance at a series of Training events and completion of practice based projects.

Training events cover the latest ideas in preserving dentine to effective team motivation, planning complex restorative cases and predictable periodontal therapy.

There are 12 course units:
01 Patient Governance * - Dr Mike Busby 06 Pulp Affliction - Professor Phillip Lumley
02 Team Governance * - Dr Mike Busby 07 Size Matters (tissue preservation) - Professor Trevor Burke
03 CPD Essentials * - Denplan Training 08 Prosthetic Paradise - Dr Neil Wilson
04 Clinical Consultants - Professor Mike Mulcahy 09 Implanting Ideas - Dr Jerry Watson
05 Deep Pockets - Professor Iain Chapple 10 A Bridge too Far? - Dr Martin Lovell

Each Training event gives you six hours of verifiable CPD. For details of what each unit involves, please download the full programme booklet.

Practice based projects

You can follow each Training event with a relevant practice based project which will give you a further 14 hours of verifiable CPD making 20 hours in total and two educational credits.

There are also two further units for you to gain educational credits towards the Stairway Programme:
11 Full attendance at the Denplan National Conference (plus completion of the associated practice project) gains two educational credits 12 Ongoing Denplan Excel Accreditation gives you four educational credits

Further programme information

  • * Three units are compulsory for attaining the award - Patient Governance, Team Governance and CPD Essentials
  • You require a total of 20 educational credits to gain the Denplan Stairway Award. These may then be put towards gaining an MSc in Primary Dental Care from Birmingham University
  • Delegates can attend as many Training events as they want and are welcome to extend the scheme for any period of time