British Isles symposium on the future of dental clinical skills training

A symposium on the future of dental clinical skills training is reported. A bstracts of the symposium presentations review the current and future use o f simulation in dental education, future skills training in the creation of new dentists, equipment and methods for simulation, the transition from si mulation to clinical practice and recent developments in simulation employi ng new technologies. The report concludes that simulation will continue to have an important, probably increasing role in dental education, and that f urther developments in clinical skills training should be sensitive to chan ging patterns of dental disease and opportunities to provide clinical instr uction. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd, All rights reserved.