title: Emerging trends in professional development.
abstract: The shape of professional development in dentistry can better be guessed from imagining the emerging needs of practitioners than from the technology of education. Four predictions are offered: professional development is likely to involve a greater blend of learning and doing, customized to individual dentists, emphasizing value added rather than evaluation of dentists, and to be distributed in the sense that dentists will take their learning in smaller doses and at their own convenience.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Chambers
mesh_terms: D003813:Dentistry / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D003815:Dentists / Q000592:standards*; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000145:classification / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D004498:Education, Dental, Continuing / Q000145:classification / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods