Periodontal education and assessment in the undergraduate dental curriculum-A questionnaire-based survey in European countries.
Eur J Dent Educ
; 22(3): e488-e499, 2018 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
This survey aimed to evaluate whether periodontal education and assessment in undergraduate dental curricula amongst the member countries of the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) follow the competency-based curricular guidelines and recommendations developed by the Association for Dental Education in Europe. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
A multiple-choice questionnaire was emailed to 244 dental institutes amongst the 24 EFP member countries between November 2014 and July 2015.RESULTS:
Data were received from 16 (66.7%) EFP member countries. Out of 117 responding dental institutes, 76 (64.95%) were included as valid responders. In most of the institutes (86.3%), a minimum set of competencies in periodontology was taken into account when constructing their dental education programmes. Out of 76 responders, 98.1% included lecture-based, 74.1% case-based and 57.1% problem-based teaching in their periodontal curricula, whilst a minority (15.9%) also used other methods. A similar pattern was also seen in the time allocation for these four educational methods, that is, the highest proportion (51.8%) was dedicated to lecture-based teaching and only a small proportion (5.7%) to other methods. Periodontal competencies and skills were most frequently assessed by clinical grading on clinic, multiple-choice examination (written examination) and oral examination, whereas competency tests and self-assessment were rarely used. Only in 11 (14.5%) cases, access flap procedures were performed by students.CONCLUSION:
Great diversity in teaching methodology amongst the surveyed schools was demonstrated, and thus, to harmonise undergraduate periodontal education and assessment across Europe, a minimum set of recommendations could be developed and disseminated by the EFP.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Periodontics
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Guidelines as Topic
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Curriculum
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Education, Dental
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Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Type of study:
Guideline
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Qualitative_research
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
En
Journal:
Eur J Dent Educ
Journal subject:
EDUCACAO
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ODONTOLOGIA
Year:
2018
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Finland