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To audit or not to audit

BDJ Student volume 29, pages 20–21 (2022)Cite this article

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Lucy Cracknell and Zoe Buontempo

As final year dental students at King's College London in 2020/21, we were bracing ourselves for a busy year ahead of examinations, practical assessment and Dental Foundation Training (DFT) applications, completing all of this whilst in the midst of a global pandemic. However, upon arrival at our outreach placement at the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy (UPDA), the tutor responsible for Dental Student clinical audit (KJ) introduced the professional need for audit and offered all students support if they wished to complete a 'student led audit'. Despite our full schedules we were keen to take up the challenge and thus make the most of this opportunity.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the mentorship of Dr Kim Jones and all the staff at UPDA for facilitating the student led audit initiative and Dr David Radford for his advice and guidance for this article.

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  1. Toad Hall Dental Surgery, Hastings, UK

    Zoe Buontempo

  2. Hook Lane Dental Care, London, UK

    Lucy Cracknell

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Buontempo, Z., Cracknell, L. To audit or not to audit. BDJ Student 29, 20–21 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41406-021-0274-7

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