McDonald D C, Godfrey J
Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, UK.
Eur J Dent Educ. 1999 Nov;3(4):167-71. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.1999.tb00087.x.
To identify the core skills required of dental graduates, and to identify if and when these skills had been acquired.
Postal questionnaire containing a stimulus list of clinical, technical and professional skills.
General Dental Practitioners (GDPs) registered as vocational trainers, Vocational Dental Practitioners (VDPs) starting their vocational training (VT) year and VDPs ending their VT year in the NHS Trent Region of England.
The list of skills on the questionnaire was formulated following discussion with a group of 4 clinical academics and 5 GDPs working in the University of Sheffield School of Clinical Dentistry. The questionnaire was sent to the total population of GDPs and VDPs, and responses were requested on an anonymous basis. The purpose mirrored that of a previous survey undertaken in the University of Sheffield Medical School to identify core skills (1), initially in this present survey, defined as skills required by the majority of GDPs (> 50%) and/or used by VDPs (> 50%) in their VT year.
45 of the skills were identified by GDPs as those they expected of the new graduate. All these core skills had been acquired by > 50% of VDPs commencing their VT year with 32 of the skills acquired by > 75% of that group. Of the group ending their VT year, 90% and above had acquired the majority of these skills. At the time of graduation > 50% of VDPs had acquired 10 skills not expected by GDPs. At the end of the VT year, 6 of these unexpected skills had been acquired by > 75% of VDPs.
The survey enabled us to audit the skills required at the end of the undergraduate course and provided the basis for monitoring skills development in undergraduate dental students.
确定牙科毕业生所需的核心技能，并确定这些技能是否以及何时被掌握。
包含临床、技术和专业技能激励清单的邮寄问卷。
在英国NHS特伦特地区注册为职业培训师的普通牙科医生（GDPs）、开始其职业培训（VT）年的职业牙科医生（VDPs）以及结束其VT年的VDPs。
问卷上的技能清单是在与谢菲尔德大学临床牙科学院的4位临床学者和5位GDPs进行讨论后制定的。问卷被发送给所有GDPs和VDPs，并要求他们匿名回复。此次调查的目的与之前在谢菲尔德大学医学院进行的一项旨在确定核心技能的调查相同（1），最初在本次调查中，核心技能被定义为大多数GDPs（>50%）要求的和/或VDPs在其VT年中使用（>50%）的技能。
GDPs将45项技能确定为他们对新毕业生的期望。所有这些核心技能都被超过50%开始其VT年的VDPs所掌握，其中32项技能被该组中超过75%的人掌握。在结束VT年的那组人中，90%及以上的人掌握了这些技能中的大部分。在毕业时，超过50%的VDPs掌握了10项GDPs未期望的技能。在VT年结束时，这些意外技能中的6项已被超过75%的VDPs掌握。
该调查使我们能够审核本科课程结束时所需的技能，并为监测本科牙科学生的技能发展提供了基础。
