NBE To Conduct FDST On 8th April 2023: DCI

Delhi: The next Screening Test Examination, FDST for the eligible candidates for their foreign MDS Degree and PG Diploma will be conducted on 8th April 2023. The Dental Council of India (DCI) has announced this through a written notice.

Per the notice, the screening test will be held at the Dwarka Office of the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences in pen & paper mode. The screening test will be conducted in accordance with the detailed scheme announced from time to time by the National Board of Examinations (NBE). 

All eligible candidates may directly contact NBE regarding any queries related to examinations. The contact detail of NBE is enclosed in the notice below.

Foreign Dental Screening Test (FDST) entrance test is conducted by the National Board of Examinations (NBE) in the offline mode for candidates to provide registration certificates from the Dental Council of India (DCI) or State Dental Council (SDC). Only Indian citizens or Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) or Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) possessing a primary dental qualification/PG Diploma/Postgraduate Dental qualification awarded by any dental institution outside India are eligible to appear. The screening test is conducted once or twice a year (depending on the number of applications).

The Dental Council of India has been constituted by an Act of Parliament to regulate the profession of dentistry and maintain the highest standards of dental education in the country. It is the statutory and bounden duty of the DCI to take such steps which are required to be taken to maintain the highest standards of dental education in the country.

Any dental qualification granted by any person/authority/institution is not valid unless and until it is according to the norms of the DCI Act and Regulations made there-under, the respective provisions of Sections 10,10A and 10B of the Dentists Act, 1948.

To view the notice, click on the link below –

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/screening-test-206735.pdf