A COMPUTERIZED METHOD OF MONITORING AND ASSESSING UNDERGRADUATE CLINICAL ACTIVITY

This article describes the development and use of an electronic data a cquisition system for monitoring and assessing the clinical activity o f undergraduate dental students. The advantages of such a system over a paper-based one is that it can generate reports quickly and easily, showing the variety of clinical experience gained by the undergraduate s and an assessment of the level of skill displayed. It also relieves academic staff of the tedious, repetitive task of collecting and colla ting data by hand.