The words to use
- Reflection
- Considering your experiences to gain insight into your practice, so you can improve how you work or the care you give (UK regulators' joint statement, 2019).
- Enhanced CPD
- The GDC's continuing professional development scheme, in force since 2018. Dentists need at least 100 hours of verifiable CPD in each five-year cycle.
- Personal development plan (PDP)
- A plan of the learning a dental professional intends to do and why. With an activity log and certificates, it makes up their GDC CPD record.
- What? So what? Now what?
- A three-question framework adapted from Borton (1970): what happened, why it mattered, and what you will do next. Use it to check answers, not narrate them.
