KMPDC Dental Exams study plan

Map the full dental practitioner registration pathway in Kenya from provisional/internship licence through full registration to annual retention, listing every statutory requirement and the body responsible for each step

Draft a one-page flowchart showing the sequence of documents, fees and timelines a new dental graduate must satisfy before independent practice

Identify and tabulate the distinct licence categories (student, intern, temporary/visiting, full, specialist) and the scope of practice attached to each

Compile a list of 15 likely exam questions on registration eligibility and note the exact statutory source that answers each

Compare the recognition and approval process for dental training institutions against the accreditation of individual programmes and clinical training sites

Summarise the minimum standards a dental school must meet on curriculum content, staff-student ratios, library and clinical facilities, and student assessment

Explain the inspection and re-accreditation cycle, including what triggers a conditional or withdrawn approval

Write out the consequences for a graduate who trains at an unapproved institution when they later apply for registration

Consolidate the legal hierarchy governing dentistry: the Act, subsidiary regulations, gazetted guidelines and professional standards, noting which instrument prevails on conflict

Distinguish the roles of the regulator, the professional association and the ministry in licensing, discipline and training oversight

Trace how a complaint against a training institution differs procedurally from a complaint against an individual practitioner

Draft concise definitions in your own words for the core statutory terms used across licensing and accreditation

Convert the standards of practice into a checklist covering record keeping, informed consent, infection prevention and control, prescribing and referral

Apply the consent standard to three contrasting scenarios: an adult of sound mind, an unaccompanied minor, and an adult lacking decision-making capacity

Explain the professional duty to refer when a procedure lies outside your competence and describe how to document the referral

Outline the required content and retention period of a dental clinical record and the consequences of inadequate documentation in a later complaint

Analyse the four elements of negligence (duty, breach, causation, damage) and apply them to a dental extraction with retained root and subsequent nerve injury

Differentiate negligence from maloccurrence and from a breach of professional ethics, giving one dental example of each

Describe the complaint lifecycle from receipt through investigation, hearing, determination and appeal, including interim suspension powers

List the recognised categories of professional misconduct in dentistry and match each to a realistic factual scenario

Work through confidentiality and disclosure, including when patient information may be released without consent and how to handle a request from a third party such as an insurer or employer

Explain dual obligations, conflicts of interest, advertising restrictions and the rules on charging and fee disclosure

Write the correct professional response to an impaired colleague, an incompetent colleague and a colleague who falsifies records

Practise structuring short ethical-committee-style answers using a facts, principles, options and recommendation framework

Revisit the weakest licensing and standards topics identified in weeks 1 to 6 and rewrite the associated notes from memory

Complete a 60-question mixed mock under timed conditions across all four domains and record a score per domain

Review every missed question and classify the error as knowledge gap, misreading or reasoning error

Rehearse the registration and complaint procedures aloud in under five minutes each without notes

Complete a second 60-question timed mock weighted toward accreditation and ethics, targeting the two lowest-scoring domains from week 7

Redo all week 7 error-log items and confirm each is now answered correctly with reasoning stated

Condense all notes into a single two-page revision sheet of dates, thresholds, procedural steps and statutory duties

Simulate two 30-minute essay-style answers on an accreditation failure and a malpractice complaint, written under exam conditions