title: Assessing continued competency: an approach for dentistry.
abstract: Holding a license in a given profession does not guarantee competency. To help define criteria for periodic competency assessment of dentists, the American Association of Dental Examiners assembled a committee in 1993. In this article, the authors outline the criteria the committee established for such assessments and discuss several assessment models proposed by the committee.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas, San Antonio, Dental School, USA.
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Low
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Kalkwarf
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D003406:Credentialing; D003813:Dentistry / Q000639:trends; D003815:Dentists / Q000592:standards; D004498:Education, Dental, Continuing; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D008005:Licensure, Dental; D008485:Medical Audit; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013044:Specialty Boards