Abbreviations used on this site
91 abbreviations from UK dental training, recruitment, specialties and dental school admissions. Wherever one appears on the site it links here, and hovering over it shows the full form.
ACF · BChD · BDS · BDT · BMA · BSc · BTEC · CCT · CDS · CGDent · CIC · COPDEND · DCT · DCT1 · DCT2 · DCT3 · DCTNRO · DDMFR · DDRB · DFT · DGH · DipHE · DMF · DMFR · DPH · DSFE · DST · DTU · DVT · EE · EoE · EPQ · FDS · FdSc · FRCPath · FRCS · FT · GAMSAT · GCSE · GDC · GDS · GPT · HE · HEE · HEIW · HL · IB · IGCSE · JD · KSS · LonDEC · M&D · MClinDent · MFDS · MMI · MSc · NCDCE · NEBDN · NES · NHSE · NHSFT · NIHR · NIMDTA · OM · OMF · OMFS · ONS · OS · PDS · PG · PGME · RCPSG · RCS · RCSEd · RCSI · SCD · SDCEP · SJT · SQA · ST1–ST8 · StR · TERS · TOK · TPD · UCAS · UCAT · UG · VT · WERO · WP · Y&H
Training pathways and grades
- ACF
- Academic Clinical Fellowship — NIHR-funded training post with 25% protected research time
- CCT
- Certificate of Completion of Training
- DCT
- Dental Core Training
- DCT1
- Dental Core Training, year 1
- DCT2
- Dental Core Training, year 2
- DCT3
- Dental Core Training, year 3
- DFT
- Dental Foundation Training
- DST
- Dental Specialty Training
- DVT
- Dental Vocational Training — Scotland's foundation year, run by NES
- GPT
- General Professional Training
- NCDCE
- National Certificate of Dental Core Equivalence — run by NES; NCDCE 1 and NCDCE 2
- ST1–ST8
- Specialty training year 1 to 8
- StR
- Specialty Registrar — a dentist in specialty training
- TERS
- Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme
- TPD
- Training Programme Director
- VT
- Vocational training
- WERO
- Welsh Enhanced Recruitment Offer — HEIW's rural DFT offer
Recruitment and selection
- GAMSAT
- Graduate Medical School Admissions Test
- JD
- Job description
- MMI
- Multiple mini-interview
- SJT
- Situational Judgement Test
- UCAS
- Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
- UCAT
- University Clinical Aptitude Test
- WP
- Widening participation
Organisations
- BMA
- British Medical Association
- CGDent
- College of General Dentistry
- COPDEND
- Committee of Postgraduate Dental Deans and Directors
- DCTNRO
- Dental Core Training National Recruitment Office
- DDRB
- Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration
- FDS
- Faculty of Dental Surgery
- GDC
- General Dental Council
- HEE
- Health Education England — now part of NHS England
- HEIW
- Health Education and Improvement Wales
- LonDEC
- London Dental Education Centre
- NEBDN
- National Examining Board for Dental Nurses
- NES
- NHS Education for Scotland
- NHSE
- NHS England
- NIHR
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- NIMDTA
- Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency
- ONS
- Office for National Statistics
- RCPSG
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
- RCS
- Royal College of Surgeons of England
- RCSEd
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- RCSI
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- SDCEP
- Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme
Regions
- EoE
- East of England
- KSS
- Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Y&H
- Yorkshire and the Humber
Specialties
- DMF
- Dental and maxillofacial — as in DMF Radiology
- DMFR
- Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology
- DPH
- Dental Public Health
- OM
- Oral Medicine
- OMF
- Oral and maxillofacial — as in OMF Pathology
- OMFS
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- OS
- Oral Surgery
- SCD
- Special Care Dentistry
Services and settings
- CDS
- Community Dental Service
- CIC
- Community Interest Company
- DGH
- District General Hospital
- DTU
- Dental Teaching Unit
- FT
- Foundation Trust (NHS)
- GDS
- General Dental Services
- NHSFT
- NHS Foundation Trust
- PDS
- Public Dental Service — Scotland
- PG
- Postgraduate
- PGME
- Postgraduate medical education
- UG
- Undergraduate
Degrees, exams and qualifications
- BChD
- Bachelor of Dental Surgery — Leeds' title for the dental degree
- BDS
- Bachelor of Dental Surgery
- BDT
- Bachelor of Dental Therapy
- BSc
- Bachelor of Science
- BTEC
- Business and Technology Education Council qualification
- DDMFR
- Diploma in Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology
- DipHE
- Diploma of Higher Education
- DSFE
- Dental Specialty Fellowship Examinations
- EE
- Extended Essay — International Baccalaureate
- EPQ
- Extended Project Qualification
- FdSc
- Foundation Degree in Science
- FRCPath
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists
- FRCS
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons
- GCSE
- General Certificate of Secondary Education
- HE
- Higher education — as in Access to HE Diploma
- HL
- Higher Level — International Baccalaureate subject level
- IB
- International Baccalaureate
- IGCSE
- International General Certificate of Secondary Education
- MClinDent
- Master of Clinical Dentistry
- MFDS
- Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery
- MSc
- Master of Science
- SQA
- Scottish Qualifications Authority
- TOK
- Theory of Knowledge — International Baccalaureate
Pay
- M&D
- Medical and dental — as in NHS Employers' M&D pay and conditions circulars
NHS trust and hospital abbreviations inside post descriptions (for example GSTT or UCLH) are reproduced from NHS England's post listings and are not expanded here.