A review of teaching of behavioural sciences in the United Kingdom dental undergraduate curriculum

Authors
McGoldrick, R Pine, C
Citation
R. Mcgoldrick et C. Pine, A review of teaching of behavioural sciences in the United Kingdom dental undergraduate curriculum, BR DENT J, 186(11), 1999, pp. 576-580
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Dentistry/Oral Surgery & Medicine
Journal title
BRITISH DENTAL JOURNAL
ISSN journal
00070610 → ACNP
Volume
186
Issue
11
Year of publication
1999
Pages
576 - 580
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-0610(19990612)186:11<576:AROTOB>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
In 1990, the GDC published its recommendations on the teaching of behaviour al sciences. A study of sociological and psychological teaching in the dent al undergraduate curriculum has shown a great deal of variation between the 14 dental schools in the United Kingdom. Most of this teaching was also th eoretical and at a pre-clinical level. Should skills and applied psychology be given an increased emphasis in the core clinical content of the undergr aduate curriculum?