Key Points
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Identifies where undergraduate training provision matches educational supervisors' expectations of a new graduate entering foundation training.
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Highlights clinical skills where there is a potential mismatch between educational supervisors' expectations and a new foundation dentist's ability, and attempts to explain these discrepancies.
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Findings add to the evidence base in relation to the preparedness of the new graduate.
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Provides data which are useful for those involved in the education continuum of dentists at both undergraduate and post-graduate level.
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The authors would like to thank COPDEND (UK Committee of Postgraduate Dental Deans and Directors) for funding this study and the ESs who responded to the survey.
Furthermore, all those involved as administrators for DF training providers that supported the study through distributing the questionnaire.
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Jones, R., Cowpe, J., Bullock, A. et al. Clinical skills of a new foundation dentist: the experience of dental foundation educational supervisors. Br Dent J 225, 177–186 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2018.536
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