title: Behavior management conference panel IV report--Educational issues.
abstract: Panel IV convened to address whether and how dental education curricula on behavior management needs to adapt to the changing needs and expectations of families and patients. There was a general consensus that behavior management should have a greater focus in dental education. Predoctoral and postdoctoral students may be expected to have different levels of exposure to behavior management concepts and techniques, but communications training should be a greater emphasis throughout dental education. Panel members specifically addressed behavior management techniques, including immobilization, restraint, sedation, and general anesthesia. Major recommendations from the panel included: 1) promote more research in behavior management; 2) update the AAPD guidelines on behavior management; 3) develop competencies/proficiencies for training programs and defining standardized outcomes; 4) introduce an AAPD task force to examine sedation issues that pertain to pediatric dental education; 5) explore new teaching methods of behavior management strategies and techniques; 6) develop a public awareness campaign to educate the public regarding what pediatric dentists do best.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dentistry, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. mng@cnmc.org
authors.forename: Man Wai
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Ng
mesh_terms: D000768:Anesthesia, General; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000193:education; D032763:Behavior Control; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D003142:Communication; D016292:Procedural Sedation; D003479:Curriculum; D004497:Education, Dental; D004499:Education, Dental, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D007103:Immobilization; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry / Q000193:education*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011641:Public Relations; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States