Quality assessment as a form of continuing dental education: changing dentist clinical performance.
Individualized clinical assessment of 105 volunteer dentists in Washington State was an experiment in continuing dental education. The two-year study evaluated the effect of counseling on the improvement of individual dentist performance as it affected the proportion of serviceable restorations. The results showed a significant difference.
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003376:Counseling; D003729:Dental Care; D004498:Education, Dental, Continuing; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005246:Feedback; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D010380:Peer Review; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012655:Self-Evaluation Programs; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires