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Views on chairside teaching were elicited from dental tutors from around the UK.
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Dental tutors agreed that there should be educational training for all clinical teachers.
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Five categories of chairside teacher were identified: dental practitioner, senior academic, intuitive dental practitioner, teacher trained academic, and dental educational developer.
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This study outlines how dental tutors at the chairside view their teaching and describes what are considered important current issues, requirements and recommendations for good chairside teaching practice. A qualitative analysis was undertaken of stakeholder perceptions of chairside teaching from both a single dental school study and a UK wide evaluation workshop. The evaluation of good chairside teaching showed that training requirements might be quite different for different stakeholders in chairside teaching. Further, this evaluation process may serve as a process model for institutional change for improvements in chairside teaching. This article is the second of a series of three and evaluates chairside teaching on a UK wide scale. The first, investigated the perceptions of stakeholders of chairside teaching at a single dental school. The third provides educational tools to encourage collaboration and sharing good chairside teaching practice. A further accompanying article reviews some of the educational methodology and innovations in teaching and learning that may be applied to dentistry.
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Sweet, J., Wilson, J. & Pugsley, L. Chairside teaching and the perceptions of dental teachers in the UK. Br Dent J 205, 565–569 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2008.983
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