Memoranda of evidence on matters of fact submitted on behalf of the Council and of the Board to The Inter-Departmental Committee on Dentistry, 1943-1944.

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[1944?]
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Credit: Memoranda of evidence on matters of fact submitted on behalf of the Council and of the Board to The Inter-Departmental Committee on Dentistry, 1943-1944. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    27] Conclusions and Recommendations of the Council as to Dental Curriculum 70. Duration of the Curriculum. The Council are of opinion that it is not in the public interest that the minimum period of professional study for candidates for Degrees or Licences in Dentistry or Dental Surgery recommended * by the Council, “namely, “at least four years, of which three years at least shall be spent at a School or Schools recognized for professional study by one of the Licensing Bodies,” should be reduced. 71. Standard of the Curriculum. The Council are of opinion that it is not in the public interest that the standard of courses of study and examinations for qualifications conferring the right of registration under the Dentists Acts, as maintained through the issue of Recommendations by the Council to the Licensing Bodies (with the sanction of the power of the Council to visit examinations and to represent defects in courses and examina- tions to the Privy Council) should be lowered. 72. Admission of Students to Dental Schools. (1) Age for Admission. The Council are of opinion that no useful purpose is any longer served by the recommendation j{ of the Council that an applicant for admission to a Dental School “ should furnish evidence that he has attained, or will within three months attain, the age of eighteen years.” 73. (2) Standard of Education for Admission. The Council are of opinion that it is in the public interest that every applicant for admission to a Dental School should be required to pass a University Matriculation or Entrance Examination.{ * Council’s Recommendations (1933), Head B, paragraph 5 (iii). + Council’s Recommendations (1933), Head A, paragraph 3. + The relevant Recommendations (1937) of the Council are as follows :— (1) Dental students should be admitted to Schools under the same - conditions with respect to preliminary examination in general education as medical students. (2) The minimum standard of the preliminary examination in General Education required of applicants for admission to a Medical