Development of a Competency-Based Curriculum for undergraduate education in Pediatric Dentistry: A systematic approach.
Certification
Clinical competence
Dental education and outcome assessment
Educational measurement
Educational strategies
Workflow
Journal
Medical journal, Armed Forces India
ISSN: 0377-1237
Titre abrégé: Med J Armed Forces India
Pays: India
ID NLM: 7602492
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2021
Feb 2021
Historique:
received:
27
09
2020
accepted:
10
11
2020
entrez:
22
2
2021
pubmed:
23
2
2021
medline:
23
2
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The changing paradigm of dental education in India has led its way to the development of Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). This article describes the process of developing CBC in the specialty of Pediatric Dentistry under the initiative of Dental Council of India. Rationale behind CBC development is to bring uniform system of education for improving oral health outcomes of the society in long term. The process of CBC development was a collaborative teamwork, planned meticulously with predefined outline, tasks and timelines. Workflow involved identification of curricular content, defining program goals, outlining competencies, assigning them domains / levels of clinical competence, priority, educational strategies, assessment practices, integration and numbers needed for certification in selected competencies. Early clinical exposure was introduced in CBC. The final content was validated and submitted to the Council. CBC output can be summarized as competencies with fair share of all domains, levels, prioritization and integration. It is characterized by flexibility for choosing educational strategies and assessment practices. It opens up ways for global competition. However, it still has some inherent weaknesses like diverging learning paths, time constraints and number chasing. CBC can further have more academic flexibility and develop toward an outcome-based approach. Faculty preparedness and acceptability shall be the biggest challenges in CBC implementation besides resources' availability, support from leadership and acceptability from our primary stakeholders, our learners. CBC is the beginning of evidence-based delivery of education in dentistry. An effective implementation of CBC in current form would result in increased numbers of competent oral healthcare professionals for the society.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33612928
doi: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2020.11.008
pii: S0377-1237(20)30238-0
pmc: PMC7873700
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Pagination
S22-S30Informations de copyright
© 2021 Director General, Armed Forces Medical Services. Published by Elsevier, a division of RELX India Pvt. Ltd.
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