Competency model 101. the process of developing core competencies.

Increasing emphasis is being placed in dentistry, as in other areas, on outcome-based education and on the specification of learning outcomes. An earlier paper by the same authors described the adaptation for dentistry of Harden's medical three-circle model to specify learning outcomes. This paper shows how learning outcomes can be applied in dental education, in particular in the areas of student selection, curriculum planning, teaching, learning and assessment.

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The specification of learning outcomes in dentistry.

Increasing emphasis is being placed in dentistry, as in other areas, on outcome-based education and on the specification of learning outcomes. This paper describes the adaptation for dentistry of the medical three circle model as described by Harden to specify learning outcomes. The model offers an effective and user-friendly format based on the three dimensions of the work of a dentist. What the dentist is able to do ('doing the right thing'), how the dentist approaches their practice ('doing the thing right'), and the dentist as a professional ('the right person doing it'). The model also facilitates curriculum and examination planning, reconciles tensions between vocational and academic education and is readily understood and accepted by students and teachers.

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