• Passing Part 1.
• Completion of 12 months in clinical dentistry.
• 24 months’ full-time postgraduate experience in dentistry. "For Awarding the Diploma".

• The OSCE component:
  is aimed at assessing the philosophy guiding the candidate’s practice, as well as their competence and application of knowledge.
• The SCR component: is an assessment of the candidate’s ability to communicate with peers, reason, evaluate, form opinion and apply knowledge obtained through undergraduate and postgraduate experience to current dental practice.

• Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
  20 stations of 5-minutes duration each which may include some rest stations, where a candidate will be asked to complete a practical task or a paper-based exercise.
• Structured Clinical Reasoning (SCR)
  Candidates will be allowed 1 hour to consider background material to the scenarios. This will be followed by 5 / 10-minute structured discussions with 2 different examiners on each occasion on selected aspects of each scenario.

Candidates will undertake the OSCE component and the SCR component in 2 separate examination circuits held on the same day. Each component will take around 2 hours.