Competencies for dental public health specialists: A thematic analysis.
competency-based education
dental public health
health workforce
oral health
qualitative thematic analysis
Journal
European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe
ISSN: 1600-0579
Titre abrégé: Eur J Dent Educ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9712132
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2023
Nov 2023
Historique:
revised:
16
11
2022
received:
21
03
2022
accepted:
12
12
2022
medline:
23
10
2023
pubmed:
16
12
2022
entrez:
15
12
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Competency frameworks have been used to accurately guide the training and assessment of professionals. Dental Public Health professionals require a variety of skills beyond clinical aspects to meet ongoing social, economic, epidemiologic, technological, etc. developments. The purpose of this study was to develop a primary competency framework for dental public health (DPH) professionals by reviewing existing documents that can be modified by authorities based on their needs. To identify DPH competencies, first a literature review of current postgraduate DPH competencies was conducted in PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Google from May to June 2021. All English language documents addressing DPH competencies were included and transferred to MAXQDA software. Next, DPH competency domains were extracted and defined, using Clarke and Braun's six-step qualitative thematic analysis method. In total, 206 English documents were retrieved. After exclusion of 201 documents due to being duplicate or not related in screening stages, five full-text English documents describing competencies of DPH specialists from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, and Ireland were reviewed. Thematic analysis led to the provision of a framework consisting of all mentioned competencies in the reviewed documents including nine domains in education, research, management, policy, communication, leadership, professionalism, oral health status, and oral health services. The proposed primary framework covers all competency domains and, as a comprehensive tool, can be used as a guide by local, national, and international authorities to develop their own frameworks for training and evaluating the DPH workforce.
Types de publication
Review
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
928-940Informations de copyright
© 2022 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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