Regulation 30 Interpretation: foundation training

enable the dental practitioner to practise and improve the dental practitioner's skills;

introduce the dental practitioner to all aspects of dental practice in primary care;

identify the dental practitioner's personal strengths and weaknesses and balance them through a planned programme of training;

promote oral health of, and quality dental care for, patients;

develop and implement peer and self review, and promote awareness of the need for professional education, training and audit as a continuing process; and

enable the dental practitioner to—

a period of full-time employment of at least one year but not exceeding two years;

an equivalent period of part-time employment; or

in the case of a dental practitioner who is not exempt under regulation 34(4) from the requirement to undertake foundation training F4and has not satisfactorily completed foundation training as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b), but—

such period of employment, which may be less than but is to not exceed that in sub-paragraph (a) or such an equivalent period of part-time employment, as a postgraduate dental dean or director of postgraduate dental education determines that dental practitioner must complete in order to have satisfactorily completed foundation training.