title: The assessment of dental vocational training: a personal view.
abstract: Following graduation, dentists wishing to practise with the National Health Services Regulations in the U.K. must complete one year of vocational training. This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the current system and proposes a new form of assessment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dental Vocational Training in the U.K. provides a learning working environment for the new graduate, in which clinical skills may be optimized.
authors.affiliation: West Midlands, UK.
authors.forename: Clive J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Gibson
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004499:Education, Dental, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011231:Preceptorship; D013218:State Dentistry; D006113:United Kingdom