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Undergraduate curriculum and e-course on Evidence-Based Dentistry
Date du début: 1 sept. 2014, Date de fin: 31 août 2016 PROJET  TERMINÉ 

Harmonizing dental education and mutual recognition of dental degrees has been always on the agenda of dental associations since the EEC Directives in 1978. Besides the increase in the numbers of dental schools and students, new tools introduced to health care necessitate integrating the crucial subjects and tools to undergraduate dental education to promote convergence. Exponential rise in scientific information coming from research findings, advances in dental materials, technology and treatments presents a big challenge for dentists in making clinical decision for the treatment of an individual patient. Evidence based dentistry (EBD) is the practice of dentistry that integrates the best available scientific evidence with clinical experience and patient preference in making clinical decisions. This approach provides efficient and cost-effective patient care by improving quality and reducing variations. Teaching EBD in undergraduate dental education is crucial for students to acquire its skills earlier in professional life that can be continued for lifelong self-directed learning. The objective of this project is to analyze the current situation of EBD teaching in partner countries, to develop a joint curriculum and a need‐targeted e-course for teaching, learning and training EBD. To reach this objective, 5 universities from Turkey, Belgium, Norway, France and Germany with key persons all experienced in dental education and especially in the subject of EBD will develop joint curriculum and an e-course allowing free access to the target group. The product will not only integrated to the curriculum of partner institutions it will be available for the use of other dental schools in Europe and in other countries besides European countries. By the start of the implementation period the shared tasks including surveys, reports, preparation of the curriculum and course content, uploading the content to the web will all be done at local level at each organisation. The transnational meetings will be a platform for presentation of the completed tasks, further improvements by sharing ideas and experiences and for adjusting the road map if necessary. The developed products will be tested, evaluated and improved for Europe-wide exploitation. In local project teams, dental students will take part together with the project key persons in preparation of the digital design, uploading the content, testing and dissemination. Dissemination will be made throughout the project lifetime by publications, media, presentations, with a multiplier event to the end of the project. The transnational cooperation by combining skills, experiences, knowledge and exchange for good practices will help modernization of undergraduate dental education. Open educational resource will provide access to high quality, relevant learning material for dental students, teachers, practitioners and institutions with no cost. It will provide a convergence in dental education, will affect both learners and teachers, organizations and enhance patient safety.

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