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Updates general dental practitioners on current developments in student education, including clinical audit and community-based clinical teaching programmes.
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Provides information for other dental schools that may be considering developments in community-based clinical teaching and clinical audit.
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Community-based clinical teaching programmes are now an established feature of most UK dental school training programmes. Appropriately implemented, they enhance the educational achievements and competences achieved by dental students within the earlier part of their developing careers, while helping students to traverse the often-difficult transition between dental school and vocational/foundation training and independent practice. Dental school programmes have often been criticised for 'lagging behind' developments in general dental practice – an important example being the so-called 'business of dentistry', including clinical audit. As readers will be aware, clinical audit is an essential component of UK dental practice, with the aims of improving the quality of clinical care and optimising patient safety. The aim of this paper is to highlight how training in clinical audit has been successfully embedded in the community-based clinical teaching programme at Cardiff.
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Lynch, C., Llewelyn, J., Ash, P. et al. Preparing dental students for careers as independent dental professionals: clinical audit and community-based clinical teaching. Br Dent J 210, 475–478 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2011.383
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