MFDS Part 2 (England)
One-to-one OSCE preparation for the 3 November 2026 sitting
Every station is marked against seven domains at once — not against a checklist for that scenario. This programme is built around that fact.
- Taught one to one — not a cohort webinar — your tutor, your times, your weak domains
- Built on the published syllabus — twelve sessions, each with its own aim and three cases
- Nine transferable frameworks — so an unseen station is still a station you have practised
- A real domain scorecard — filled in station by station, visible to you before the sitting
- A full mock circuit — fourteen stations under exam conditions, with written domain feedback
- Your own portal — syllabus, guidelines, book references and the exam guide in one place
Every station is scored on all seven. Not on whether you knew the answer.
This is the part candidates most often prepare around rather than for. A station is not marked on the clinical fact at the centre of it — it is marked on how you gathered information, what you did with it, and how you communicated it, to a patient and to a colleague. Knowing the answer and scoring the station are two different exercises.
Cases run out. Frameworks do not.
There is no finite list of stations to memorise, so the programme teaches the shapes instead. Nine of them cover the exam, and the ninth runs in every station you will ever sit.
Opening, targeted questioning, summarising back
Plain language, one idea at a time, checking understanding
Option, benefit, risk, cost, doing nothing
Warning shot, pause, respond, plan
Listening without defending, being open, signposting
Headline first, specific ask, read-back
Describing behaviour not character, escalating properly
Radiographs, biopsy and blood reports, perio charts — aloud
Entry, greeting, positioning, opening question
Every station
Twelve taught sessions, then a full mock.
Each session has one aim and three cases. They are one to one, so the pace follows the domains you are weakest in rather than a fixed cohort timetable.
- Recurrent aphthous ulceration
- Periodontal abscess
- Loose tooth
- Burning mouth syndrome
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- TMD with locked jaw
- Warfarin patient needing an extraction
- Bisphosphonate patient — MRONJ risk
- Liver transplant patient needing an extraction
- Generalised periodontitis
- Localised molar–incisor pattern
- Gingival recession
- Re-root treatment
- Broken file in a canal
- Tooth wear — erosion and attrition
- Aphthous ulceration — haematinic screen
- Periodontal chart explanation
- Apical radiolucency and failed root treatment
- Emergency handover — briefing a nurse
- Laboratory prescription — instructing a technician
- End-of-list handover to a covering dentist
- A colleague's error
- Wrong tooth extracted
- HIV status and confidentiality
- Implants — risks, benefits and investigations
- Missing teeth and a loose bridge
- Anxious patient — sedation options
- Neglected patient — missed caries
- Angry patient with an abscess after treatment abroad
- Amalgam toxicity concerns
- Suspicious white patch
- Dysplasia — biopsy report
- Special needs patient — capacity and consent
- Avulsed permanent incisor — distressed parent
- Discolouration in a teenager — MIH
- Needlestick injury — patient and team
Full mock examination
Run as the real thing is run, on 30 October 2026, four days before the sitting. Long enough to act on the feedback, close enough that nothing has gone cold.
- 14 stations, run continuously under exam conditions
- No breaks
- Timed to eight minutes of consultation per station
- Patient notes issued at each door
- Actors briefed as patients, carers and members of the dental team
- Scored on all seven domains, station by station
- Written domain feedback follows
The ones we are actually asked.
No — and the names are one letter apart, which catches people out. MFDS is the Royal College of Surgeons of England; MFD is RCSI in Ireland. They are separate diplomas with separate syllabuses. This page is the England one.
Every station is scored against all seven domains, not against a checklist for that scenario. That is why the preparation is built around nine transferable frameworks rather than a list of cases to memorise.
One-to-one, following the published syllabus — twelve sessions, each with its own aim and three cases, then a full mock circuit. Your tutor sets the times and your joining link sits in your portal.
Real scores. Your portal carries a domain scorecard that your tutor fills in station by station, so you can see which of the seven is holding you back before the sitting rather than after it.
Fourteen stations run back to back under exam conditions, eight minutes of consultation each, with actors briefed as patients, carers and members of the dental team. Written domain feedback follows.
The mock circuit is on 30 October 2026 and the sitting is on 3 November 2026.
Start on the domains, not on the cases.
Twelve one-to-one sessions, nine frameworks, a full mock circuit and a domain scorecard you can actually see — through to the 3 November sitting.
Mock circuit 30 October · Sitting 3 November 2026. One-to-one places are limited by tutor time.
Course material is the exclusive property of AceDent Academy. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. MFDS Part 2 is the England diploma and is separate from MFD Part 2 (RCSI, Ireland).
