Guidelines for the organisation of continuing professional development activities for the European dentist

Suomalainen, K., Karaharju-Suvanto, T., Bailey, S., Bullock, Alison Deborah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3800-2186, Cowpe, Jon, Barnes, Emma J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6447-6647, Thomas, Hannah Sian, Thomas, R., Kavadella, A., Kossioni, A., Kersten, H., Povel, E., Giles, M., Walmsley, D., Soboleva, U., Liepa, Andra and Akota, I. 2013. Guidelines for the organisation of continuing professional development activities for the European dentist. European Journal of Dental Education 17 (s1) , pp. 29-37. 10.1111/eje.12021

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Aim Free movement of dental professionals across the European Union calls for more uniform continuing education in dentistry to ensure up-to-date, high-quality patient care and patient safety. This article provides guidelines for the management and delivery of high-quality continuing professional development (CPD) by European dental schools and other CPD providers. Method The guidelines are based on an extensive literature inventory, a survey of existing practices (both available as separate publications), discussions during meetings of the Association for Dental Education in Europe in 2011 and 2012 and debate amongst the members of the DentCPD project team representing six dental schools. Results On the basis of the literature review, survey and discussions, we recommend that (i) every dentist should be given the opportunity for CPD, (ii) providers should be quality-approved and impartial, (iii) educators should be approved, impartial, suitably trained, and with educational expertise, (iv) the mode of CPD delivery should suit the educational activity, with clear learning objectives or outcomes, (v) effort should be made to assess the learning, (vi) participant feedback should be collected and analysed to inform future developments and (vii) uniform use of the pan-European system of learning credit points (ECTS) should be implemented. Conclusion Implementation of these guidelines should make dental CPD more transparent to all relevant parties and facilitate the transferability of earned credits across the European Union. It will also enable better quality control within dentistry, resulting in enhanced dental care and ultimately the improvement in patient safety.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education (CUREMeDE) Dentistry Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education R Medicine > RK Dentistry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	continuing education; continuing professional development; dentistry; university; dental school; patient safety; quality control; ECTS
Publisher:	John Wiley & Sons
ISSN:	1600-0579
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2022 08:26
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/56601

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