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European convergence towards higher standards in dental education: the DentEd Thematic Network Project.

机译:欧洲朝着更高的牙科教育标准迈进:DentEd主题网络项目。

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INTRODUCTION: This paper describes a Thematic Network Project (TNP) funded by the European Union's Directorate for Education and Culture. It focused on convergence towards higher standards in dental education in the European Union and included those 'Associate Countries' seeking membership of an expanding EU. The DentEd Project sought to use peer influence in promoting convergence towards higher standards in European dental education and training. There is evidence of serious differences in standards despite the European Union's Dental Directives and the series of guidelines and recommendations of their Advisory Committee on the Training of Dental Practitioners. METHODS: The DentEd TNP sought to improve communication, better understanding of different systems and to pool intellectual resources. A central objective of the network was to promote outcome analysis and the implementation of evidence-based treatments. DentEd sought to identify and disseminate innovations and best practices in European dental schools and stomatological institutions. This was achieved by instigating 30 self-assessments of dental schools throughout Europe. Self-assessment was followed by a visit from a team of international peers. Each assessment comprised 19 sections and was placed on the DentEd web site (www.dented.org) after it was jointly approved by the visitors and host school. The 30 self-assessment reports together with the visitors comments and recommendations were then divided into their component sections and analysed. Responsibility for each section was allocated to one of 19 different international working groups of between 8 and 12 people. Preliminary analyses from these working groups were presented and debated on the DentEd interactive web site. They finalised their findings in the DentEd Report at a Plenary meeting in the Nobel Forum in the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The meeting was organised in such a way that each working group finalised their report. This was followed by the rotation of the working groups to listen and respond to the presentation of another group on the basis of a series interactive meetings. At the end of the meeting the original groups reassembled and revised their analysis on the basis of the additional input from the other 200 individuals involved and then finalised their group's report on the web site. These reports are available on the web site and were also published in hard copy.1 The three-year DentEd Project achieved its stated objectives. CONCLUSION: The DentEd Thematic Network Project employed a process of schools visits, plenary meetings and the use of an interactive web site to help reach consensus on innovations, best practices and significant divergence in standards in dental education in Europe. This process has proven an effective method of improving communication and of increasing the understanding of diversity in a wide range of educational methods. It also emphasised the importance of continuing quality improvement and outcome analysis of the clinical competence of graduates from European dental schools. It is important to emphasise that schools visited are likely to reflect those with an open and flexible attitude to educational reform and development and perhaps they were not representative of those schools that would benefit most from a self-assessment followed by peer review. On completion of the DentEd Thematic Network Project (TNP) the European Union's Directorate for Education and Culture approved a new three-year DentEdEvolves TNP and the consortium has recently submitted a major proposal in the EU's eLearning initiative on the basis of the success of this collaboration. This has extended to include 75% of dental schools from North America and plans for extension to South-east Asia will bring a major meeting to Singapore in April 2002.
机译:简介:本文介绍了由欧盟教育与文化局资助的主题网络项目(TNP)。它着眼于在欧洲联盟朝着更高的牙科教育标准迈进,并包括那些寻求加入扩大的欧盟的“准国家”。 DentEd项目试图利用同龄人的影响力来促进向欧洲牙科教育和培训更高标准的融合。尽管有欧洲联盟的《牙科指令》及其牙科医生培训咨询委员会的一系列指南和建议,但仍有证据表明标准存在严重差异。方法:DentEd TNP试图改善沟通,更好地理解不同系统并汇集智力资源。该网络的主要目标是促进结果分析和实施循证治疗。 DentEd试图在欧洲牙科学校和口腔医学机构中识别和传播创新和最佳实践。这是通过在整个欧洲发起30项牙科学校自我评估来实现的。自我评估之后,一个国际同行团队进行了访问。每个评估包括19个部分,在访问者和寄宿学校共同批准后,将其放置在DentEd网站(www.dented.org)上。然后将30份自我评估报告以及访问者的评论和建议分为组成部分并进行分析。每个部门的职责分配给19个不同的国际工作组,由8至12人组成。这些工作组的初步分析已在DentEd交互式网站上进行了讨论。他们在斯德哥尔摩卡罗林斯卡学院诺贝尔论坛全体会议上的《 DentEd报告》中最终确定了他们的发现。会议的组织方式是每个工作组都要完成其报告。随后,工作组轮流在一系列互动会议的基础上听取和回应另一组的发言。在会议结束时,原始小组在其他200个人的补充意见的基础上重新组合并修订了他们的分析,然后在网站上最终确定了小组的报告。这些报告可在网站上获得,也可以印刷本的形式发表。1历时三年的DentEd项目实现了既定目标。结论:DentEd主题网络项目采用了学校参观,全体会议和使用交互式网站的过程,以帮助就欧洲牙科教育的创新,最佳实践和标准上的重大分歧达成共识。在广泛的教育方法中,这一过程已被证明是一种改善交流和增加对多样性的了解的有效方法。它还强调了持续提高质量和对欧洲牙科学校毕业生的临床能力进行结果分析的重要性。需要强调的是,所访问的学校很可能反映出对教育改革和发展持开放和灵活态度的学校,也许它们并不能代表那些通过自我评估和同行评审而受益最大的学校。在完成DentEd主题网络项目(TNP)后,欧盟教育与文化局批准了一项新的为期三年的DentEdEvolvs TNP,该联盟最近在这项合作成功的基础上,在欧盟的电子学习计划中提交了一项重要提案。这已经扩展到包括来自北美的75%的牙科学校,并且扩展到东南亚的计划将在2002年4月在新加坡召开一次重要会议。

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