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. 2022 May;26(2):317-328.
doi: 10.1111/eje.12706. Epub 2021 Jul 8.

Spanish Curriculum in Cariology for undergraduate dental students: Proceedings and consensus

Francisco Javier Cortés-Martinicorena  1 , Laura Ceballos  2 , Eva Martínez-Pérez  3 , Miguel Hernández-Juyol  4 , Andreas G Schulte  5 , José Manuel Almerich-Silla  6 ; Spanish Curriculum of Cariology Expert Group
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Spanish Curriculum in Cariology for undergraduate dental students: Proceedings and consensus

Francisco Javier Cortés-Martinicorena et al. Eur J Dent Educ. 2022 May.

Abstract

Introduction: Cariology is today a broad-based discipline and in the Spanish university teaching field, all this knowledge is not unified in a curriculum. Therefore, the aim was to develop a consensus text based on the European Core Curriculum, updated, and adapted to the characteristics of the Spanish university environment.

Materials and methods: A Spanish Cariology Curriculum Group (SCCG) was set up with members of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology and Oral Public Health (SESPO), Spanish Society of Conservative and Aesthetic Dentistry (SEOC) and Spanish Society of Paediatric Dentistry (SEOP) and university experts to adapt the European Core Curriculum in Cariology for undergraduate dental students (ECCC) for Spain. The work was carried out online during 2018 and 2019, and also face-to-face meetings took place to obtain a draft curriculum open for discussion that was presented to all the Spanish universities. The final modifications to the document were specified in a Consensus Conference of Spanish universities offering a Degree in Dentistry that took place in Madrid on 19 November 2019.

Results: Thirty-eight university experts, under SCCG supervision, participated in the elaboration of the new framework document. A total of 16 universities, from 23 invited, reached a consensus as to the contents of the Spanish Curriculum in Cariology for undergraduate dental students. This new Curriculum emphasises learning outcomes, uses a consensus-based terminology pertaining to caries and other hard-tissue conditions, and introduces a new domain of competence in Domain III of ECCC.

Conclusion: This new Cariology Curriculum is the result of a very broad-based consensus of university experts in Spain and lays the foundation for the implementation of an integrated teaching of Cariology in Spain in adherence to Alliance for a Caries Free Future (ACFF) objectives.

Keywords: Spain; cariology; consensus; curriculum; dental education.

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