Current curricular trends and future directions for dental education – The Indian perspective (original) (raw)

Journal of Advanced Clinical and Research Insights

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Dental education in India has faced stagnation in curricular modifications despite advancements globally. The current system heavily emphasizes procedural skills without adequately fostering competencies like decision-making and communication among students. While the Indian Dental Council allows for flexible curriculum changes, there is a pressing need to adopt contemporary educational strategies that align with global standards and address the needs of modern trainees. This paper advocates for comprehensive curriculum reforms to enhance the educational experience and outcomes for dental students, ultimately improving the quality of dental practice in India.

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Dental education: current scenario and future trends

The journal of contemporary dental practice, 2012

India has more than 290 dental institutions, producing over 25,000 BDS graduates every year. There are three main characteristics that are shared by any profession: Delivering the best possible education to its students, giving priority to public service over self-interest and enforcing regulations and codes of ethics through self-government. Dentistry in India is currently being challenged to maintain the professionalism. This is partly a result of pressures applied to the educational system. This article discusses some challenges in brief and attempts to attend the challenges in positive manner.

Dental Education Challenges and Changes

The aim of dental health education is to impart knowledge on the causes of oral diseases and providing the ways and possibilities of their prevention and adequate treatment. Health education would highlight the necessity of proper nutrition, maintenance of oral hygiene with the use of fluoride products, and other regimen as well as drive attention toward the significance of regular check-ups with a dentist. Public health dentistry in India has become the only key toward future dental workforce and strategies. There have been numerous challenges which exist for expanding oral health care in India, in which the biggest challenge is the need for dental health planners with relevant qualifications and training in public health dentistry. There is a serious lack of authentic and valid data for assessment of community demands, as well as the lack of an organized system for monitoring oral health care services to guide planners. Based on the aim for sustained development, human resource planning and utilization should be used along with a system of monitoring and evaluation. Hence, both demand and supply influence the ability of the dental workforce to adequately and efficiently provide dental care to an Indian population which is growing in size and diversity.

Towards a Competency-Based Dental Education Framework: Defining Competencies

2012

The objective of this study was the validation of competencies by all stakeholders and to group them into manageable, measurable, reproducible and identifiable dental graduate capabilities. Dental faculty, students of all academic years in institutions affiliated with University of Health Sciences and the public were administered a 30 item questionnaire listing the graduate dental competencies in 2011. Data was entered into Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v.16 and analyzed by using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) with Varimax Rotation under the conditions of Eigenvalues > 1 and loadings ≥ 0.2. Parametric tests were applied to the responses of all stakeholders. 'Agree' response was given a score of '1' and 'disagree' was given a score of '0' for each question/characteristic. These scores were added up to compute a new variable as total score of the respondents. p 0.05 was considered as significant. 2037 questionnaires were collected (1789 from students, 88 from faculty and 160 from the public. The value of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) was 0.924, where Bartlett's Test of Sphericity was significant (p-value<0.05). In Confirmatory Factor analysis (CFA), five components were extracted with Kaiser Eigenvalues greater than 1 accounting for 40.58% of variance. Total 30 items had internal consistency reliability of 0.876 (Cronbach's Alpha). Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) showed a significant difference in Response scores of various stakeholders (F=113.2, p<0.05). Post Hoc Tukey Test revealed that General public scored significantly lower than the students and faculty. Graduate dental outcomes are not wholly generic; there are cultural, societal and structural variations that affect the desired regional final competencies. It is therefore important for Pakistan to design its own outcomes for the program rather than to import them from the West. Competency-based dental education, outcome-based curriculum, competencies, baccalaureate of dental surgery How to cite this article:

Dental Education Upgrade - Mapping of The New Pathin Current Indian Context

Annals of SBV, 2017

Nothing is permanent except change". Education is an open system that changes over time based on the needs of the stakeholders. If it stops to change, the system will fail. The dental profession needs to upgrade itself with newer aspects in dental education. The upgrade should involve all steps in the curriculum. For the process of upgrading to be successful,the faculty members need to be trained adequately in the curricular change area. The future of dental profession relies on upgrading the dental education.

Integrated undergraduate dental curriculum

JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 2019

OBJECTIVE To develop a blueprint for producing an integrated undergraduate curriculum for dental schools in the region. METHODS The study framework was designed at Islamic International Dental College- Riphah International University, Islamabad during May 2016-January 2017. Integrated curriculum was developed by using themes described as modules, such as organs, science of oral diagnosis, aesthetics and dental rehabilitation. Contents or topics from different disciplines having similar focussed learning outcomes were united in one particular module. Horizontal and vertical homogenisations of various modules were achieved by displaying them in a specific way on Bloom's ladder . RESULTS All modules were free of boundaries of traditional subjects. For example, dental emergency was a theme (module) which carried assorted contents associated with dental emergency from endodontic, oral surgery, prosthetic disciplines etc. CONCLUSIONS The framework provided an outline and pattern to de...

Quality improvement and Future directions of Dental education

Education being an open system undergoing changes from time to time, there is a current need to overcome the disparities and match the demands from all perspectives. The future dentists need to be trained in terms of critical thinkers and problem solvers and more as an oral physician who can work in an interdisciplinary fashion. They should be highly equipped with technology and evidence based dentistry. The next generation students training methods should also change to digitally equipped versions and social Medias need to be used as means of professional platform as well. Learner centred education in the form of choice based credit system can help the institutions to achieve the desired outcomes providing cafeteria approach to the learners. The future direction of dental education is to propose, implement and improve quality initiatives in each step of curricular process.

Dental education upgrade - Mapping of the new path in Current Indian Scenario

“Nothing is permanent except change”. Education is an open system that changes over time based on the needs of the stakeholders. If it stops to change, the system will fail. The dental profession needs to upgrade itself with newer aspects in dental education. The upgrade should involve all steps in the curriculum. For the process of upgrading to be successful,the faculty members need to be trained adequately in the curricular change area. The future of dental profession relies on upgrading the dental education.

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