OOOO as required reading in the dental school curriculum: an opportunity to both guide the curriculum and reinforce the relationship between biomedical science education and dental practice?

As health sciences educators, we're all well aware of three closely related recurring challenges in predoctoral dental education: motivating our students to appreciate the importance of the basic sciences and biomedical curriculum to their future clinical practice; ensuring that this content is of clear relevance to dental practice and making sure that our graduates can translate this knowledge to clinical practice. No doubt, the Commission on Dental Accreditation and high stakes examinations like the (Integrated) National Board Dental Examination provide broad guidelines and potential metrics, but, very appropriately, much is still left to the individual institution as to what is covered and how students are assessed.

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