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EduQual Awards Level 7 Accreditation to Ucer Education’s Certificate Course

Now in its 25th year, Ucer Education is Commencing November 2018, the 12-day delighted to announce that its multisystem (one day-a-month) programme will focus certificate course has achieved EduQual Level on academic teaching with practical skills. 7 accreditation, as a formal postgraduate To achieve the required clinical com- certificate in implant dentistry. petence for independent clinical practice of The course, which is held at the ICE implant dentistry, the academic education is Postgraduate Dental Institute and Hospital, followed by clinical skills development on is now a vocationally related qualification, live patients to prepare the trainees to meet accredited and awarded by EduQual, the the FGDP’s Training Standards in Implant UK awarding body that offers a range of Dentistry (2016). qualifications that are credit-rated for the To start your career in implant dentistry, Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework book your place onto Ucer Education’s (SCQF) by the Scottish Qualifications next Postagraduate Certificate (PGCert) Authority (SQA). in Implant Dentistry starting 21st Novembe, Course leader and professor Cemal Ucer visit ucer.education, email [email protected] BDS, MSc, PhD, oral surgeon, a highly or call 0161 237 1842. ■ regarded authority on implant education and a contributor to the FGDP’s Training Standards in Implant Dentistry (2016), said, ‘Achieving such status is extremely advantageous to our students, when striving to become more confident and competent in implant dentistry they will now gain a well- recognised quality assured HE qualification as opposed to a certificate.’

48 APRIL 2018 // dentaltownuk.com Friel and Montgomery with Dr. Philip Friel and dancing coach Kerry Montgomery stars and Philip Friel’s Charity Rumba for Hospice Helps Raise £100,000

Dr. Philip Friel has completed his clinic’s me to decide to potentially subject myself to much first charity initiative of 2018 by helping raise taunting and ridicule from friends and family £100,000 for The Prince and Princess of Wales when I turned out to perform. As I stepped out Hospice in Glasgow. under the glitter ball, I just focused on all those Friel signed up to take part in a Strictly who’d donated and supported. Come Dancing-style event held on March 10 in ‘This was very much a case of stepping the Glasgow Hilton and performed a rumba in outside my comfort zone, but Kerry was a great front of a sell-out, 600-strong audience. teacher and her focus and enthusiasm made sure I Hospice charity bosses recruited Friel and trained as hard as I can. I found myself practising another seven ‘non-dancer’ contestants to raise a a few of the more complex steps between clinic minimum of £3,000 each. In the end, Friel’s own appointments. The response from patients, friend, total almost tipped the £24,000 mark and the family and clinic associates was incredible and group amassed the £100,000 for the appeal which I’m so grateful for the support. It was a once-in- sees the hospice move into a new purpose-built a-lifetime experience and learning to ballroom complex on the south side of the city. dance is another ticked off the bucket list!’ Friel, clinic director at Philip Friel Advanced The event was hosted by Carol Smillie and Dentistry, started his rumba training with David Farrell. Strictly show stars Oti Mabuse and professional dancing coach Kerry Montgomery Giovanni Pernice were special guests and judges in the middle of January after recovering from a who also performed a series of show dances for leg injury sustained in a 5-a-side football match. the audience. He trained up to three times a week at the One of Friel’s dental hygienist colleagues, David Lloyd Centre in Renfrew in the run-up Clare French, won the prize draw for a dance to the event. with Pernice— an experience she described as Friel admitted to being ‘just a tad nervous— ‘super fun’. but with good nerves’ when he hit the dance floor Friel and Montgomery impressed the judges but added, ‘Who doesn’t have a friend or family enough to get through to the dance-off, but in the member who at some point has been cared for end were pipped by Jean Bonner and Federico or supported by the hospice team? Ribeiro, whose samba performance lifted the ‘Such a worthwhile cause made it easier for glitterball trophy. ■

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