TY - JOUR
T1 - O-HEALTH-EDU
T2 - A scoping review on the reporting of oral health professional education in Europe
AU - Dixon, Jonathan
AU - Manzanares-Cespedes, Cristina
AU - Davies, Julia
AU - Vital, Sibylle
AU - Gerber, Gabor
AU - Paganelli, Corrado
AU - Akota, Ilze
AU - Greiveldinger, Alyette
AU - Murphy, Denis
AU - Quinn, Barry
AU - Roger-Leroi, Valerie
AU - Tubert-Jeannin, Stephanie
AU - Field, James
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors. European Journal of Dental Education published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - Introduction: The variability in oral health professional education is likely to impact on the management of oral health needs across Europe. This scoping review forms the initial part of a larger EU-funded collaborative Erasmus + project, ‘O-Health-Edu’. The aim of this scoping review is to investigate how oral health professional education in Europe is reported. Methods: The PRISMA and Arksey & O’Malley methodological frameworks for scoping reviews were used to guide reviewers in answering the research question “How is oral health professional education reported in Europe?”. The search strategy encompassed published literature searches, internet searches and further searching of relevant documents from educational organisations, regulators and professional bodies. Once the search strategy was developed, it was sent to key stakeholders for consultation. Sources were reviewed by two authors (JD, JF) and included in the review if they reported on oral health professional education in Europe. Results: A total of 508 sources were retrieved from all of the searches. A total of 405 sources were excluded as they did not report on the topic of interest, leaving 103 sources that reported on oral health professional education in Europe. Handsearching the references of published sources lead to a further 41 sources being screened, of which, 15 were included. In total, 33 duplications were removed and the final number of included sources was 85. The average year of publication for the included sources was 2007, with sources most commonly published in journals dedicated to dental education. Surveys represented the most common form of reporting. From the data obtained, four broad themes of reporting were evident: dental education at a programme level, dental education at a discipline level, other oral health professional education, and postgraduate education and continuous professional development. Conclusion: The reporting of dental and oral health professional education in Europe is limited. Whilst there are many useful documents that provide guidelines on dental education, there is limited knowledge on how education is implemented and delivered. There is a greater need for comprehensive educationally driven programme-level data on oral health professional education across Europe.
AB - Introduction: The variability in oral health professional education is likely to impact on the management of oral health needs across Europe. This scoping review forms the initial part of a larger EU-funded collaborative Erasmus + project, ‘O-Health-Edu’. The aim of this scoping review is to investigate how oral health professional education in Europe is reported. Methods: The PRISMA and Arksey & O’Malley methodological frameworks for scoping reviews were used to guide reviewers in answering the research question “How is oral health professional education reported in Europe?”. The search strategy encompassed published literature searches, internet searches and further searching of relevant documents from educational organisations, regulators and professional bodies. Once the search strategy was developed, it was sent to key stakeholders for consultation. Sources were reviewed by two authors (JD, JF) and included in the review if they reported on oral health professional education in Europe. Results: A total of 508 sources were retrieved from all of the searches. A total of 405 sources were excluded as they did not report on the topic of interest, leaving 103 sources that reported on oral health professional education in Europe. Handsearching the references of published sources lead to a further 41 sources being screened, of which, 15 were included. In total, 33 duplications were removed and the final number of included sources was 85. The average year of publication for the included sources was 2007, with sources most commonly published in journals dedicated to dental education. Surveys represented the most common form of reporting. From the data obtained, four broad themes of reporting were evident: dental education at a programme level, dental education at a discipline level, other oral health professional education, and postgraduate education and continuous professional development. Conclusion: The reporting of dental and oral health professional education in Europe is limited. Whilst there are many useful documents that provide guidelines on dental education, there is limited knowledge on how education is implemented and delivered. There is a greater need for comprehensive educationally driven programme-level data on oral health professional education across Europe.
KW - dental education
KW - dental hygienists
KW - dentists
KW - oral health professionals
KW - professional education
KW - review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090313879&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/eje.12577
DO - 10.1111/eje.12577
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090313879
VL - 25
SP - 56
EP - 77
JO - European Journal of Dental Education
JF - European Journal of Dental Education
SN - 1396-5883
IS - 1
ER -