Educational Supervisor training (FD32373)

Shaam has been involved with Dental Foundation Training since 2001, teaching and mentoring new graduates in practice. In 2008, he was appointed to the post of Training Programme Director in Midlands & East and is responsible for running the training schemes at Stafford County Hospital & Royal Stoke hospital.

His other roles include Specialist Advisor for the CQC, LDC Board member for North & South Staffordshire and senior examiner for Overseas Registration examination in London, Royal College of Surgeon’s LDS examination and the MFDS in Edinburgh.

In 2006, he acquired a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Ethics and Law and has worked as a Clinical panellist for the GDC’s Dental Complaints Service. In December 2020, Shaam completed his 10 year appointment sitting as a panellist for the GDC’s Fitness to Practice procedures adjudicating matters on clinical and professional misconduct. In 2021, he recently set up with a colleague the first ever PG Cert in Dental Risk Mitigation to help mentor colleagues in the profession facing Fitness to practice allegations.

Recommended to all

To have an understanding of the Post-Covid dento-legal landscape when working in a Foundation Training Practice

Be able to apply the principles of risk management in everyday practice

Understand the risks for practices associated with Vicarious liability and non-delegable duty

Appreciate how good communication minimises complaints

Appreciate the preparation a registrant must undertake if an allegation of fitness to practice is brought against them

To understand how things have changed in the dent-legal landscape post Covid and how to best support an FD in a their training practice