Final Review of Competency Progression
The Final RCP takes place after ten months in practice.  It is a panel review of progress and can involve two stages.

The purpose of Final RCP Stage 1 Panel is to:

• Confirm whether or not you, the FD, has completed, or will complete within the training year, the necessary requirements for Satisfactory Completion
   
• Ensure that any items identified at Interim RCP have been followed through
   
• Recommend any additional activity to be completed before the end of the programme
   
• Make an Outcome recommendation

The panel uses as its Primary evidence the Final reports from your ES and TPD and the IRCP report.

The priority areas for the panel to review are:

• Clinical safety
• Communication ability
• Engagement with programme
• Evidence that the FD is able to practice independently?

The Panel will always review:

1. ES Final Report
2. ES Supplementary Final Report (if required)
3. TPD Final Report
4. Interim RCP Panel Report
5. Second MSF and/or PSQ summaries (if requested by Interim Panel)
6. ADEPTs and CbD numbers
7. Clinical activity record summary
8. Professionalism and Management & Leadership Domains Summaries
9. Complaints and Adverse Incidents (if any)
10. Sickness absence days (if any)

Other information will be reviewed if there are concerns.

The Final RCP Stage 1 Panel will produce a report which will be available to you, your ES(s) and your Scheme TPD as well as the Associate Dean/Regional Advisor/PAD and Postgraduate Dental Dean/Director. The report will set out the following information:

1. What evidence has been reviewed by the Panel
2. The Panel’s recommended Outcome
3. Any recommendations for further development or support

The outcome recommendations available to the Stage 1 Panel are:

• Outcome 5 - Incomplete evidence presented. This will be made, if necessary, to allow you the opportunity to provide any missing evidence within a specified time period.  For expediency, this will be reviewed by a Stage 2 Panel
   
• Outcome 6 - Gained all required competencies. This will be the ‘trigger’ for issue of a Satisfactory Completion of Dental Foundation Training Certificate by the end of the training year.  This recommendation will need to take account of the fact that the assessment is taking place before the end of the programme
   
• Outcome 7 - Referral to Stage 2 Panel for further consideration. This will be made if the Stage 1 Panel has concerns that the required competencies will not be demonstrated by the end of the training year or that other issues may affect Satisfactory Completion
   

The Final RCP Stage 2 Panel has additional externality in its membership and will consider only case passed to it by the Stage 1 Panel. The outcome recommendations available to the Stage 2 Panel are:

• Outcome 3 - Inadequate progress by the trainee – additional training time required. Where such an outcome is anticipated, the FD must attend to receive feedback from the panel Chair after the panel has reached its decision.  The overall duration of the extension to training should normally be for a maximum of six months,  but with an absolute maximum of one yea.
   
• Outcome 4 - Released from training programme with or without specified competences. The FD may wish to seek further advice from the Postgraduate Dental Dean about future career options.
   
• Outcome 5 -  Incomplete evidence presented – additional training time may be required. If this occurs you may require additional time to submit the evidence or, in exceptional circumstances, additional time to complete your training programme.  Once the required documentation has been received, the panel should consider it.
   
• Outcome 6 -  Demonstrated all required competences – This will be the ‘trigger’ for issue of a Satisfactory Completion of Dental Foundation Training Certificate by the end of the training year.  This recommendation will need to take account of the fact that the assessment is taking place before the end of the programme
   
• Outcome 6R -  Demonstrated all required competences and prescribed elements subject to completion of identified actions -  This will be made if the panel considers that you should realistically be able to complete the training programme within the specified training period, subject to completion of the items identified by the panel. The panel  will need to identify the specific elements that must be demonstrated and reviewed within the remainder of the specified training period for your satisfactory completion of the training programme to be confirmed
   

Foundation Dentists will have the right of appeal if they receive an outcome which results in a recommendation for:

• Outcome 3: an extension of the indicative time to complete the training programme,  or
• Outcome 4: the Foundation Dentist to leave the training programme with identified areas of competence that have been demonstrated, but without completion of the programme

Appeals should be made in writing to the Postgraduate Dental Dean/Director within ten working days of the Foundation Dentist being notified of the panel’s decision.

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