Dental Diploma, Membership and Specialty Examinations Assessors

Applications are invited for Assessors for the Dental Faculty Diploma, Membership and Specialty Examinations.


Criteria

Applications are invited from enthusiastic and motivated clinicians with demonstrable experience of dental surgery examining to become examination assessors for the Dental Faculty Diploma, Membership and Specialty Examinations of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

You should be engaged in clinical/academic practice and be involved in appropriate undergraduate and postgraduate training.

As a minimum, applicants should hold the BDS qualification and have examination experience with the College.

Applicants must be on the Register of the General Dental Council of the United Kingdom. Whilst your primary specialty will be noted, assessors will be expected to assess all Faculty examinations.

You will be required to attend a minimum of two examination diets per year.


Training

Please note that, if your application is successful, you will be required to attend training, renewed approximately every five years.

Assessors will be able to earn CPD points during the assessor training.


Applications

The application form is available below and should be accompanied by two completed referee forms and ideally, a personal statement (of no more than 300 words) of what you would contribute to the role of being an assessor.

Completed applications should be returned by email preferably, or to the postal address below.

For further details, please contact the Examinations Section:

Dental Examiner Recruitment

Examinations Section

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Nicolson Street

EDINBURGH

EH8 9DW

Email: DentalExaminerRecruitment@rcsed.ac.uk

Tel: +44 131 527 1600

Documents

  • Job Description Dental Examination Assessor Vacancy (pdf)

    Accessed: 25-10-24

  • Application Form Dental Examination Assessor Vacancy (doc)

    Accessed: 25-10-24

  • Referee Form Dental Examination Assessor Vacancy (docx)

    Accessed: 25-10-24