A generic consensus assessment of undergraduate competence in forceps exodontia in the United Kingdom

Durham, J., Balmer, C., Bell, A., Cowan, G., Cowpe, Jon, Crean, S. J., Dawson, L., Evans, A., Freeman, C., Jones, J., Macluskey, M., McDonagh, A., McHanwell, S., Millsopp, L., Myrddin, Lowri, Oliver, Richard, Renton, T., Sivarajasingam, Vaseekaran ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-592X, Still, D., Taylor, K. and Thomson, P. 2010. A generic consensus assessment of undergraduate competence in forceps exodontia in the United Kingdom. European Journal of Dental Education 14 (4) , pp. 210-214. 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2009.00612.x

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Abstract

The assessment of competence in clinical skills has become more frequent in published healthcare curricula and syllabuses recently. There are agreed mechanisms for the assessment of competence in the post-graduate environment, but no consensus within the undergraduate curriculum. This paper seeks to develop an agreed generic checklist for the assessment of competence in forceps exodontia.Materials and methods: A modified Delphi process was undertaken with representatives from all UK dental schools (n = 13) to develop a generic checklist for the assessment of competence in forceps exodontia. A content analysis of the assessments employed by each school was used to help discussion and inform the Delphi process.Results: Seven schools currently employ a summative assessment of competence in forceps exodontia, with the majority employing a structured clinical objective test (n = 6). From the seven assessments, there were a total of 29 putative items and 10 putative domains identified for a generic checklist. These were reduced to five domains and 19 items through the content analysis and Delphi process, and a generic overarching checklist was created.Conclusion: Using this generic checklist, it may now be possible to pool data inter-institution to perform more powerful analyses on how our students obtain, or fail to obtain competence in forceps exodontia. © 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Dentistry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	competence; oral surgery; undergraduate; exodontia; extraction
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	1600-0579
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2022 13:54
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/15838

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