Brindley J
University of Portsmouth Dental Academy.
Br Dent J. 2016 Oct 21;221(8):495-498. doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2016.779.
Aim The focus of this review was to identify the role of reflection in continuing dental education. By understanding the expectations that our statutory regulative authority has of their registrants there is an opportunity to help to shape the continued professional development activities undertaken by current registrants in the future.Objective Conduct a review of General Dental Council (GDC) Fitness to Practise cases which were given conditions (restrictions) between February 2012 and November 2015, identifying relevant emergent outcomes in relation the Fitness to Practise (FTP) process.Design A Framework Approach (FA) was used to interrogate the qualitative data generated from GDC cases, the data were reviewed by a secondary person to ensure inter-rater reliability. Ethical approval was not sought for this research project as the GDC cases are published and available for open access via the internet. However, this does not negate the need for consideration of those GDC registrants who have been reviewed by the FTP process, indeed information regarding their identities was removed during data collection, as individual identification as part of this research project may have impacted on these individuals (bearing in mind the principle of non-maleficence; do no harm) and disclosure of personal information would not have contributed to the findings of this review. Although FTP cases are in the public domain, the information is still sensitive to those registrants, therefore it was not possible to review those cases which were not available for public view. To ensure that individual identification of registrants did not occur for the available to view cases (n = 56), each case file was individually downloaded from the GDC website and immediately given an individual numerical identifier before the frame work analysis. For the purpose of this research only the data from the FTP cases which resulted in 'conditions' were subject to review, as these were cases where it was felt that the registrants were able to remedy their personal professional practices.
目的 本综述的重点是确定反思在牙科继续教育中的作用。通过了解我们的法定监管机构对其注册人员的期望，有机会帮助塑造未来现任注册人员所开展的持续专业发展活动。
目标 对2012年2月至2015年11月期间被给予条件（限制）的英国牙科总会（GDC）执业资格审查案例进行综述，确定与执业资格审查（FTP）过程相关的新出现的结果。
设计 采用框架方法（FA）对从GDC案例中生成的定性数据进行询问，数据由第二人进行审查以确保评分者间信度。由于GDC案例已发布并可通过互联网公开获取，因此本研究项目未寻求伦理批准。然而，这并不否定需要考虑那些已通过FTP程序接受审查的GDC注册人员，实际上在数据收集过程中已删除了有关他们身份的信息，因为作为本研究项目的一部分进行个人识别可能会对这些个人产生影响（牢记不伤害原则；勿造成伤害），并且披露个人信息不会有助于本综述的结果。尽管FTP案例属于公共领域，但这些信息对那些注册人员来说仍然敏感，因此无法审查那些不可公开查看的案例。为确保对可查看案例（n = 56）不发生注册人员的个人识别，每个案例文件均从GDC网站单独下载，并在框架分析之前立即给予一个单独的数字标识符。就本研究而言，仅对导致“条件”的FTP案例数据进行审查，因为这些案例是认为注册人员能够纠正其个人专业行为的案例。
