title: Using competencies to improve dental practice management education.
abstract: The ADEA Competencies for the New General Dentist contain a significant number of practice management-related competencies. To date, these have been taught primarily in a lecture format in the third and fourth years of the dental curriculum. Presenting information in this way only satisfies the lower level learning skills, not the skills needed to become a competent general dentist. This article presents a framework for applying the competency-based education model to dental practice management teaching, learning, and assessment.
authors.affiliation: the School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, 501 S. Preston Street, Louisville, KY 40292, USA. david.willis@louisville.edu
authors.forename: David O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Willis
mesh_terms: D003162:Competency-Based Education; D003479:Curriculum; D003657:Decision Making; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005376:Financial Management; D005792:General Practice, Dental / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D011215:Practice Management, Dental; D013850:Thinking