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- Title
Factors influencing the quality of undergraduate clinical restorative dentistry in the UK and ROI: the views of heads of units.
- Authors
Martin, N.; Fairclough, A.; Smith, M.; Ellis, L.
- Abstract
In the light of concerns regarding expanded student intakes and reported workforce difficulties, a 2008 survey of heads of departments of restorative dentistry in UK and ROI dental schools sought to clarify the current situation with regard to: workforce configuration; barriers and facilitators of quality undergraduate clinical restorative dentistry; and, implications of the above for programme delivery. The response rate was 100% for the workforce statistics and 65% for the remainder of the survey. Findings were largely consistent across the 14 schools. Workforces were increasingly part-time with a shortage of full-time academics. While resources had generally expanded to meet increased student numbers and outreach teaching had augmented clinical learning, difficulties in recruiting patients and communicating with a fragmented workforce were risking the quality of undergraduate curricula. Issues to be addressed include a pervading sense of teaching being undervalued and staffing being sub-optimal.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; OPERATIVE dentistry; DENTAL schools; EDUCATIONAL quality; TRAINING of dentists; EDUCATION
- Publication
British Dental Journal, 2010, Vol 208, Issue 11, p527
- ISSN
0007-0610
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.498