Batchelor P, Albert D
Department of Dental Public Health and Community Dental Education, Kings College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London.
Br Dent J. 1998 Aug 8;185(3):141-4. doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4809751.
The issue of standards of competence and assessment is central to professions. For the dental profession there have been suggestions that a change from overall competence to specific fields of competence would be a more suitable mechanism to assess whether an individual was competent. This paper examines the implications of such proposed changes and highlights several key issues, answers to which need to be provided prior to adopting new proposals. Failure to do so may well provide additional problems without addressing shortcomings in the present system.
能力标准和评估问题是各专业领域的核心。对于牙科专业，有人建议从整体能力评估转向特定能力领域评估，这将是一种更合适的机制，用以评估个人是否具备相应能力。本文探讨了此类提议变更的影响，并突出了几个关键问题，在采纳新提议之前需要给出这些问题的答案。否则，可能在未解决现有系统缺陷的情况下引发更多问题。
