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Keep your knowledge and skills up to date and earn CPD credits in 2016/2017 with Nell Armstrong Intergalactic Study Tours. The tours are fully escorted and combine a once-in-a-lifetime travel experience with all of the core CPD topics recommended by the General Dental Council (GDC).
Preparation – weekend workshop
To prepare for your interplanetary voyage, you will spend two days training at Slough Astronaut Training Station (SATS), running laps of the adjoining field to improve your fitness, being tested for dizziness in the spinning sphere, and being plunged into a large pool while strapped into a mock spaceship in scuba gear, to simulate space travel.
The voyage
Having completed your training you will join other graduates of SATS and your tour guide at the recently-opened offshoot of NASA, the British Rocket Launch terminal at Heathrow.
The first leg of your space expedition will take you into orbit around the Earth, where lectures on Medical Emergencies, Disinfection and Decontamination, and Ethical and Legal issues will be delivered by satellite webinar from guest speakers based at Duke's College London Dental Institute (DCL). You will enjoy freeze-dried three-course meals with no added sugar and be able to Skype family and colleagues back home.
Tier 1 delegates will then be dispatched to the International Space Station where they can catch up on CPD and specialist dental topics of their choice. Tier 2 delegates will continue on a fieldtrip to the Moon, where activities will include bouncing on the surface and having your photo taken with the American flag. Tier 2 delegates will then return to Earth, collecting Tier 1 delegates en route. All participants will be presented with their CPD certificates by Professor Mark Wilfred, Interim Executive Dean of DCL Dental Institute, along with a scale model of our solar system engraved with your name.
The Tier 1 Intergalactic Study Tour costs £1.5 million and Tier 2, £3 million per person, inclusive of all training and refreshments. Book two places and bring your dental nurse along for free.
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Watch this space to top up your CPD. Br Dent J 221, 807 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2016.967
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2016.967
