Professor Janice Ellis

Title: Educating for the future workforce

Aim: To reflect on the experiences of 30 years as a Dental Educator with a view to giving consideration as to how these experiences can inform the future.

Objectives: To provide an opportunity for reflection into lessons learnt when providing undergraduate and post-graduate dental education

Learning Outcomes: Describe some of the challenges involved in delivery of an undergraduate dental programme and post-graduate training and the likely changes that may come into place.

GDC Outcomes: A, B, C and D

Biography:
A graduate of Newcastle University, Janice is now Professor of Dental Education at Newcastle University and Hon Consultant in Restorative Dentistry at Newcastle Dental Hospital, where she is currently Restorative Dentistry TPD.

She is an ex- President of the British Society of Prosthodontics, a founder member of the British Alliance of Researchers in Dental Education & Scholarship and Co-Lead of the NIHR Incubator for Clinical Education Research. As a previous Chair of Dental Schools Council Education Committee she was instrumental in developing the Educational Transition Document and part of the GDC reference group developing Safe Practitioner Framework.