Association for Dental Education in Europe
Learning together to improve oral health and quality of life
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Included are the capability domains of:
The proposed curriculum has taken into account the Delphi consensus reported by Khalaf et al. 20222 to represent recently agreed important content in an undergraduate prosthodontic curriculum. Papers reporting curricula for digital workflows3 and artificial intelligence4 have also been taken into account.
Findings from this survey will establish how clear, how important and how difficult each learning outcome of the proposed curriculum is perceived to be. It is expected that the consensus view on these aspects will help educators to use the document to maximum effect when deriving local curricula. The process of deconstructing more complex tasks and teaching essential skills early, and reinforcing longitudinally, is described previously by Field et al 20221.
Learning outcomes are defined as “a series of individual and objective outcomes, with shared ownership between students and staff, designed to facilitate the learning and assessment process”5. They are very much a guide for students to direct their own learning, and for educators to plan a course of study, and to formulate assessments.
Within each capability domain, every learning outcome and has been highlighted as blue, green or yellow to represent the ideal educational environment and assessment style to achieve each individual learning outcome:
Clinical LO – directly observable within a clinical or skills environment Supporting Clinical LO – directly observable within clinical or skills environment, or through case-based discussion, or written assessment Fundamental LO – assessable through discussion or written assessment
Competencies are defined as “a professional behaviour or skill required by a graduating Oral Health Professional in order to respond to the full range of circumstances encountered within their professional practice”5. As such, competencies may comprise a number of discrete learning outcomes that require application to a scenario or task.
After each section of behaviour-based learning outcomes, a number of suggested competencies are listed.
There is the opportunity to provide free text comments for any additional suggestions or comments. Completion of this survey should take around 40 minutes.
Participation in this project is voluntary. All survey responses are anonymous, no personal data will be collected. Due to the anonymous data collection, it will not be possible to remove your submitted responses at a later date. The data will be collated and presented in the form of descriptive statistics.
