Association for Dental Education in Europe

Learning together to improve oral health and quality of life

COP in Professionalism

Friday, 22nd August 2025 - 09:00 to 10:30
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Timezone: 

Dublin (IST, UTC+1)

Venue: 

Room 119 TCDBS

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Session synopsis: 
Please join us for this 4th session of our COP in Professionalism. We will be continuing the conversation around key themes essential to the teaching and learning of Professionalism.

The purpose of this session is to share the results of the COP’s scholarly activity this past year establishing foundations essential for colleagues involved in the teaching of Professionalism for all members of the Dental Team.

Programme: 

TBC

Chair: 

Melanie Nasseripour

Lead for the ADEE COP in Professionalism
Kings College London, UK

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
melanie.nasseripour@kcl.ac.uk

Dr Melanie Nasseripour DDS, MSc, PhD is a Reader in Ethics and Dental Education at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London. She is Module Lead for Dentistry In Society and co-Lead for Professionalism. Her main research interests are in the field of Ethics, Professionalism, Conservative and Minimal Intervention Dentistry, in particular as applied to oral health education and assessment. She has been teaching for over 15 years in both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Dental Education supervising clinical care, masters and PhD level research projects as well as being module lead in the Advanced Minimum Intervention Dentistry MSc programme.

Learning Outcomes: 

By the end of this session participants will be able to:

  • Understand what is a meta-ethnographic analysis
  • Discuss and establish the shared definition of shared practitioner
  • Identify the Impact of AI on Professionalism
  • Discuss intergenerational interactions shaping our future graduates’ professionalism
  • Discuss positive and negative examples of Digital Social Media affecting Professionalism

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