| Seq #52 | Thursday, 9 March 2006 | |||||||
| 1:30 PM-3:30 PM Swan Hotel 3-4, Symposium | ||||||||
| [ADEA] Core Curricula in Advanced Education Programs in Dentistry: What is the Best Model? | ||||||||
Sponsored by: ADEA | ||||||||
| Description: To the best of our knowledge, no overview has ever been done presenting evidence beyond anecdotal regarding the definition/delivery of core curricula in Advanced Education Programs in Dentistry. These curricula are expected to prepare residents for advanced training in required areas of biomedical and applied sciences that are common, discipline-specific, relative, interdisciplinary, medically-associative, and adjunctive. The first objective of this symposium will be to provide the background, philosophy, and problems associated with such curricula. If the assumption that Advanced Education Programs in Dentistry design their core curricula in accordance with accreditation standards, then an overview of accreditation standards in 11 disciplines (2 general dentistry areas plus 9 recognized specialty areas) would be instructive in the definition and delivery of such curricula. Terminology defining levels of knowledge and skills are not universally applied and when applied, not always consistently. Frequency of citings of noncompliance in areas of standards related to the biomedical and applied sciences would identify areas where programs have had difficulty at the site visit; these will be presented as the second objective. In addition, there appears to be a wide variation as to how the core curricula are administered and taught from school to school. Questions such as what is truly taught, how material is delivered, what models are best, why residents tend to abhor core courses, and how outcomes are measured will be addressed through a comprehensive survey to school administrators. Finally the program will present a new comprehensive core curriculum that was designed at Marquette University that is user-friendly, flexible, and meets specific programmatic/accreditation needs for each graduate program | ||||||||
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