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Tanzania Dental Students' Association

Student membership

Register as a first-year dental student, or update the record TDSA already holds for you. Applications are reviewed by the association before membership is confirmed.

I am a first-year student Submit a new membership application I am a continuing student Update your existing record as you progress

What membership gives you

  • A member profile and dashboard
  • A permanent membership number and digital card
  • Events, research and student resources
  • Your TDSA chapter at your institution

Already approved?

Sign in to the member area for your card and your permanent number.

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Who you are

Use the name exactly as it should appear on official TDSA certificates.

Choose a password for the member area

You sign in with your email and this password once your application is approved. Nothing is published before approval.

Your studies

This decides the letter in your permanent number: B for a Bachelor’s Degree, D for a Diploma.

Programme type

No chapters are published yet, so this is left to your administrator to record on review.

Review and consent

Registration type

How TDSA handles your information

  • TDSA collects your name, contact details, institution, programme, academic year, admission cohort, student registration number and, for continuing students, your existing membership number — and uses them only to administer your membership.
  • Your email and phone number are never printed on your digital membership card and are never shown on the public verification page.
  • Only authorised TDSA administrators can view the full member record. Membership numbers are not a public directory.
  • Your password is stored as a cryptographic hash, never in readable form.
  • Details of every application decision are recorded for accountability.

Fields marked are required. Submitting does not confirm membership: an application reference is issued first.

How approval and your membership number work

  1. 1

    You submit an application

    You receive an application reference such as TDSA-APP-2026-0001. It confirms the application exists; it is not a membership number.

  2. 2

    TDSA reviews it

    An authorised administrator checks your details, looks for an existing record so you are not registered twice, and either approves the application, rejects it with a recorded reason, or asks you for a correction.

  3. 3

    Your permanent number is assigned

    On approval TDSA assigns a permanent membership number in the official format: TDSA/B/2026-0001 for a Bachelor's Degree member, TDSA/D/2026-0001 for a Diploma member. B and D keep separate, independent sequences. The year is the year the number was first issued, and the number stays yours for life.

  4. 4

    You get your digital card

    Approved members sign in to the member area and open their digital membership card, which shows your name, permanent number, programme category, institution or chapter, status and a QR code for verification. Your phone number and email are never printed on it.

Accessing your card

Sign in at Member sign in. The dashboard shows your permanent number, and the card is available once your status is Approved. Pending applications do not have a card.

Open member area

Checking an application

Use your application reference and the email you registered with at Check application status. Lookups are limited and only reveal the status of the application you ask about.

Check status