Dr. Dympna Kavanagh:

That is the mentoring scheme, which I identified. Instead of leaving it to the last year, because dentists start using their clinical skills right through, we want to get more of that into the undergraduate training. However, we recognise it is jam-packed already and we will need to have a mentoring framework afterwards. We are not naive. Dentistry changes fast. Every five years it changes. It is not only for new graduates. It is for all those other graduates who are out there. We looked at psychology, as mentioned previously. We looked at social work. We looked at other systems that are in place for long-term mentoring. This is the position that we are looking at. What we are looking at is like a super-extended type of foundation training.