title: "Practical skills" - Positioning of the GMA committee for dentistry.
abstract: The GMA committee for dentistry of the German Society for Medical Education (GMA) considers its' main purpose the representation and interconnection of all aspects of dentistry with and within the GMA. Teaching and assessing practical skills during training is traditionally of great importance in dental education. This is also reflected in the National Competence Based Catalogue of Learning Objectives for Dental Education (NKLZ). Practical skills are not comprised in a separate chapter as they are in the National Competence Based Catalogue of Learning Objectives for Medical Education (NKLM), but are considered in all sections of the NKLZ for the purpose of interdisciplinary patient- or disease-specific application, targeting the educational level of acting competency. The implementation of the associated joined interdisciplinary integrated educational concept has undoubtedly been a challenge for dental curriculum development against the backdrop of German Dental Licensure Act dating back to 1955.
authors: Universitätsklinikum Münster, Poliklinik für Prothetische Zahnmedizin & Biomaterialien, Münster, Germany.
authors: Petra
authors: P
authors: Scheutzel
authors: Goethe-Universität, Carolinum Zahnärztliches Universitäts-Institut gGmbH, Poliklinik Zahnerhaltungskunde, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
authors: Susanne
authors: S
authors: Gerhard-Szép
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D003813:Dentistry; D004497:Education, Dental; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans
keywords: Dental Licensure Act; dental education; dental simulator; practical skills; skills