ArticleEuropean journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe2022
A model for a geriatric teaching programme and its impact on self-rated and tested competencies of undergraduate dental students.
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- Competences for Providing Oral Health Care to Care-Dependent Older Adults-Defining Learning Objectives for the German Undergraduate Dental Curriculum Through a Delphi Study.European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe · 2026Article
- A competency-based curriculum for geriatric dentistry in undergraduate and postgraduate education : a scoping review.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Ageing, multimorbidity and polypharmacy shape prosthodontic case-mix in undergraduate clinics: a 9-year retrospective cohort study of 1,205 patients in Germany.BMC oral health · 2026Observational
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introductionIn the light of the growing ageing population, it is important that future dentists be taught geriatric competencies to assure good dental care and treatment addressing the special needs of older patients. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe developed and evaluated a geriatric teaching programme amongst final year undergraduate dental students (n = 30) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. The geriatric teaching programme was based on the European undergraduate curriculum in geriatric medicine for medical students covering the following eight geriatric domains that were considered relevant to dental care: Analgesics, cognitive impairment, decision-making capacity, gait and balance disorder, hearing impairment, malnutrition, polypharmacy and vision impairment. Using a pre/post-design, we administered a structured questionnaire including standardised questions on self-rated and tested competencies. Both assessments scores were standardised to a maximum score of 100 points. Data were evaluated by comparison of pre-test and post-test mean scores.
resultsThe geriatric teaching programme proved to be feasible covering eight geriatric domains based on a case-based didactic approach in totally eight 45-minute lessons. Both self-rated and tested competencies of dental students increased in all eight domains in the course of the geriatric teaching programme. After the geriatric teaching programme, both mean self-rated competency scores (67.9 vs. 49.6, p < .001) and mean tested competency scores (78.7 vs. 56.7 points, p < .001) significantly improved compared to baseline.
conclusionsIntegrating a consolidated refined geriatric teaching programme is a potentially feasible and effective method for dental undergraduate students and is expected to have an impact on better dental care of older patients.
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