The schedule is open to the profession; only members are obliged to attend. Forty hours of recorded education each year, twelve of which must be earned in person.
Booked, dated, located. Members register through the member portal; non-members may attend the Congress and the Trainee Day on application.
Three days of reviewed failure cases, presented by the operator of record. No keynote sponsorships, no industry track. Twelve CPD hours.
Oral defence of submitted case series, before a panel of three Fellows drawn by lot. Pass rate, posted publicly each year.
Open hearing of two outstanding complaints. Members may observe; the press is admitted by application. Rulings issued within thirty days.
A practical workshop on the CBCT protocols accepted under Article I. Eight CPD hours; small-format; capped at twenty-four.
Six-hour written paper. Held three times a year in Madrid, Geneva, and Boston. Anatomy, materials, complications, ethics, legal.
Residents and senior students sit with audited Fellows over live cases. Open enrolment; mentored placements offered to the highest-rated attendees.
Three complaints listed; one Article IV audit-flag. Patient testimony in person where consented. Rulings within thirty days of hearing.
Eleanor Vance, F.I.A., leads the workshop on the written-record protocol. Two case studies; one mock hearing. Eight CPD hours.
Members of every class except Trainee owe forty hours of recorded CPD each year. Twelve of those hours must be earned in person — that is, in a room with a named instructor, not from a video. Hours are filed in the member portal as they are accrued and certified by the Registrar at year end.
CPD hours are not credit for showing up. They are recorded against an instructor, a date, a venue, and a topic; the instructor counter-signs. A randomised audit of CPD filings is run alongside the case-log audit each spring.
When Standards reviews a member, the CPD log is read first. A practitioner who has spent the year at industry seminars and not in any hands-on examination of their own work is, in our view, exposed.
Part I is a six-hour written paper held three times a year. It tests anatomy, biomaterials, complications, ethics, and the legal context of consent. The pass mark is published before each sitting. The 2025 pass rate on Part I was 56% on first attempt.
Part II is an oral defence of forty minutes before three Fellows drawn by lot. The candidate presents one chosen case from their submitted series and is examined on an unseen second case. The 2025 pass rate on Part II was 41% on first attempt.
The case series — twelve cases with imaging, written rationale, and twelve-month outcomes — is the prerequisite for Part I and the foundation of Part II. See the full process.
The written paper is six hours, marked anonymously by two examiners with a third in adjudication. The weighting below has been stable since 2018 and is published before each sitting so candidates know what to prepare.
| Section | Marks | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Anatomy & surgical planning | 60 | 20% |
| Biomaterials, platforms, prosthetics | 45 | 15% |
| Complications & remediation | 60 | 20% |
| Consent, ethics, the Six Articles | 60 | 20% |
| Legal context & documentation | 45 | 15% |
| Imaging interpretation (unseen) | 30 | 10% |
| Total · pass mark 65% | 300 | 100% |
A score below 50% in any single section requires referral, even if the overall mark exceeds 65%.
Forty minutes before three Fellows drawn by lot. The first twenty minutes: the candidate presents one chosen case from the submitted series. The next ten: the Fellows ask questions on the submitted case. The final ten: an unseen second case is placed before the candidate, who has six minutes to read and four to discuss. Scoring is on a published rubric — clinical reasoning, ethical clarity, documentation quality, and demeanour under pressure each weighted at 25%.
Nineteen congresses. Each focused on one question; each with no industry sponsorship, no exhibition floor, no paid speakers. The themes rotate; the discipline does not.