Aims & Objectives
of vocational training
Overall Aims
To enhance clinical
and administrative competence and promote high standards through relevant
postgraduate training to meet the needs of general dental practice, and
in particular:
- To enable trainees
to practise and improve their skills
- To introduce trainees
to all aspects of general dental practice.
- To identify a trainee’s
personal strengths and weaknesses and balance them through a planned
programme of training.
- To promote oral
health and quality dental care for patients.
- To develop further
and implement peer- and self-review, and promote awareness of the need
for professional education, training and audit as a continuing process.
Objectives
To enable the trainee:
- To make competent
and confident professional decisions including decisions for referrals
to other services.
- To demonstrate
that s/he is working within the guidelines regarding the ethics and
confidentiality of general dental practice.
- To implement regulations
and guidelines for the delivery of safe practice.
- To know how to
obtain appropriate advice on, and practical experience of, legal and
financial aspects of practice.
- To demonstrate
that s/he has acquired skill and knowledge in the psychology of care
of patients and can work successfully as a member of a practice team.
- To demonstrate
the necessary knowledge and skills to organise and manage a practice.
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