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Professional standards in dental education

British Dental Journal volume 228, pages 875–881 (2020)Cite this article

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The importance of quality-assured teaching development is recognised within the new 'Graduating European Dentist' curriculum. In addition, educators within higher education are now increasingly required to demonstrate good standing in terms of education and educating their profession. Standards and expectations exist within the discipline of medicine, but there is little in the way of a general professional standards document for dental education that accounts for the multitude of training and teaching development pathways available to the wider dental team. As such, this paper aims to examine models from established professional development frameworks that may be applied to standards for dental education, highlight important considerations for the development of standards for professional dental educational team development, and provide guidance for individuals wishing to plan, record, map and reflect on their professional educational development.

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  1. School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TA, UK

    James Field

  2. Learning and Teaching Development, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Rosa Spencer

  3. Dental Public Health, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XY, UK

    Ilona Johnson

  4. Postgraduate Dental Education Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Richard Cure

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