Background/Objectives. The holistic methodology in education has been widely appreciated
and implicated in dental schools in the last decade. Our department of conservative dentistry …

The intent of the redesign of the clinical component of the Harvard School of Dental
Medicine (HSDM) curriculum from a traditional numerical procedures‐based system to a …

In summer 2012, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry
transitioned from a departmental clinical education model to a comprehensive care/group …

Aim: This research project sought to explore the issue of what constitutes effective clinical
teaching in the minds of both students and teachers. Background: As stakeholders of the …

A concise overview of an institution's aspirations for its students becomes increasingly
elusive because dental education has evolving emphases on priorities like critical thinking …

Following curricular revisions at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry,
this longitudinal study was designed to determine students' perceptions of their educational …

Comprehensive care models in dental education encourage students to deliver patient‐
centered care. But to deliver effective comprehensive care, a clinician must first make a …

Introduction General dentistry is the most common area of practice, and new dentists must
have the competency and skills to safely deliver patient care. In New Zealand (NZ) …

Objective To improve the confidence of the final year dental students in completing occlusal
and oral rehabilitation of patients, with complexities beyond their scope, based on full …

Introduction The governing bodies for dentistry in the UK and Ireland require dentists, at
graduation, to possess the knowledge, skills and attributes which enable them to practise …