Current Trends in Predoctoral Dental Clinical Assessments (Office of Dental Education Webinar Series)

- Advanced
Associated Schools

Identify and describe the current and emerging dental clinical skills assessment methods - and the resources needed to reliably conduct them.
Evaluate applications of current dental clinical skills assessment modalities and describe the considerations important to implementation for methods presented.
Approaches for predoctoral dental student dental clinical skills assessments vary significantly depending on clinical resources and content. Advances in technology along with considerations for physical and human resources can make significant impacts on the quality and validity of assessments. This session will explore some of the current approaches to clinical assessment along with examples of evidence based and resource minded assessment methods for the future. Participants can expect to be provided with high quality resources to support the learning experience and there may be active involvement for participants to interact with the session through mobile devices.
Alec S. Eidelman, DMD, MPH, MEd
Lecturer on Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology
Director of CHA General Practice Residency Program, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Credit Designation: Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. HSDM designates this activity for 1 continuing education credit.