title: Review of competency-based education in dentistry.
abstract: Dental education was previously structured in such a way that students largely learned what teachers chose to teach them. The aim was to produce a dentist with prescribed packages of knowledge upon graduation. This traditional approach was mainly disciplined-based. Increasingly, the current trend is towards competency-based education, which provides a sequence of defined learning experiences to students so that on graduation they may be considered as qualified beginners in dental practice. The adoption of competency-based learning requires the re-assessment and revision of old curricula, but there remains some common ground between traditional and competency-based education.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, SAR, China.
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Yip
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Smales
mesh_terms: D003162:Competency-Based Education; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D006113:United Kingdom