What competencies does an orthodontic postgraduate need?
Hamid Mahdavifard, Saeed Noorollahian, Athar Omid, Nikoo Yamani · 2024
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Mahdavifard and co-authors set out the skills an orthodontics graduate needs, in a study published in 2024. Orthodontists straighten teeth and jaws, and training programs need a clear target for what graduates can do. The team gathered candidate skills from journals, databases, and curricula in Iran and abroad. They built the list into a questionnaire. Fifty-two orthodontic specialists at universities then judged how necessary each item was, in rounds of a structured consensus method.
The rounds distilled the long list into a basic framework of core competencies. Such a framework guides both teaching and testing: students learn what the framework names, and exams check the same ground. The authors offer it as a base that schools can extend. Their work answers a practical question in dental education: what, exactly, should a new orthodontist be able to do on day one?
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hamid Mahdavifard, Saeed Noorollahian, Athar Omid, Nikoo Yamani |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |