Institute of Continuing Professional Development, Karlsruhe, Germany.
J Dent Educ. 2012 May;76(5):656-60.
Lawsuits in dentistry are increasing, and often a legal dental expert witness is called to provide an expert opinion. The appointment of the expert witness is rather arbitrary since special requirements for expert witnesses do not exist. Qualified written expert opinions, however, are particularly relevant for the dental profession. The Karlsruhe Training for Legal Dental Expert Witnesses (KT) was introduced as the German approach to this problem. The KT is a training program based on the principles of continuing professional development (CPD) that trains dentists to give written expert opinions and to act as expert witnesses in all types of legal matters. The aim of the study was to assess the quality of the KT according to the requirements of CPD. A written survey was conducted among the 161 participants in the KT between 2004 and 2009. It contained questions to assess the quality of the program and to evaluate its impact on the professional performance of the participants. The return rate was 51.6 percent (n=83). The analysis shows that the KT achieved its main goal to train the dentist as a legal dental expert witness and that the KT does not only transfer formal knowledge but stimulates changes in personal development as described in the concept of CPD.
牙科诉讼不断增加，通常需要聘请法律牙科专家证人提供专业意见。由于不存在针对专家证人的特殊要求，因此专家证人的任命相当随意。然而，合格的书面专家意见对于牙科专业尤为重要。卡尔斯鲁厄法律牙科专家培训 (KT) 就是德国解决这个问题的方法。KT 是一个基于持续专业发展 (CPD) 原则的培训计划，旨在培训牙医撰写专家意见，并在各种法律事务中担任专家证人。本研究的目的是根据 CPD 的要求评估 KT 的质量。在 2004 年至 2009 年期间，对 KT 的 161 名参与者进行了书面调查。它包含了评估该计划质量并评估其对参与者专业表现影响的问题。回复率为 51.6%（n=83）。分析表明，KT 实现了将牙医培训为法律牙科专家证人的主要目标，并且 KT 不仅传递了正式知识，还如 CPD 概念所述，激发了个人发展的变化。
