Lockdown learning

Webinars have been part of the dental postgraduate training landscape for over a decade but have become the predominant medium for continuing professional development during the nationwide dental lockdown.

At the centre of this ‘webinar revolution’ have been two major free online lecture programmes organised by Denplan in partnership with Dental Update. The first April/May programme (also in partnership with Oral B) has now become the most popular lecture series in the history of UK dentistry with an extraordinary 90,000 registrations for lectures on a wide range of clinical subjects from well known British and European lecturers. All these lectures remain available for on-demand viewing at https://webinars.dental-update.co.uk/#/

With the first programme nearing completion, public, professional and political pressures to re-start UK dentistry inspired a second Denplan/Dental Update collaboration to design and deliver a three full-day online conference, with lecture subjects entirely devoted to the safe, efficient, effective return to patient care in general practice. At the time of writing this unique programme has already attracted over 55,000 registrations and is also available for on demand viewing at https://conference.dental-update.co.uk/#/