We accredit a comprehensive range of high-quality educational resources for consultants, trainees, SAS doctors, medical students and the wider healthcare community. Our aim is to develop the dermatology workforce, ultimately to benefit patient care.

Please complete one of the accreditation forms below if you are seeking BCD accreditation for your course or event and wish to use our logo on your materials. The BCD Educational Accreditation Application Form is for providers in higher education, special interest groups, teaching hospitals and non-commercial settings. The BCD Educational Accreditation Application Form is for commercial organisations.

Benefits

By recognising our logo, dermatologists and other healthcare professionals can be confident that the resource has been independently assessed to ensure a consistent and high-quality standard, aligned to recognised curricula where possible.

We offer providers:

• Educational quality assurance
• External governance through review of your feedback metrics
• Promotion of your course or event on our website via our events calendar
• Use of the BCD logo on approved materials
• Opportunity to contribute a review article in Clinical and Experimental Dermatology (CED) Journal.*
• Once your event / course has successfully been accredited by the BCD, applicants are entitled to a 20% discount on advertising their course or event in the monthly BAD circular.*

*Only applies to non-commercial providers

Contact education@bad.org.uk for enquiries.

CPD Points

Please note that the BAD does not confer CPD points for your course or event.

If you are seeking CPD points, please refer to the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK website for more information.