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Letter from California--mandatory continuing education. 2000

M A Pogrel

Dept of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0440, USA.

In Britain, mandatory continuing dental education is on its way. In California, we have had mandatory continuing dental education for some twenty-five years. Maybe it would help to see some of the good and bad sides of this, learn from some of our mistakes and see what does work and what does not work--at least in California.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008005	Licensure, Dental	The granting of a license to practice dentistry.	Dental Licensure,Dental Licensures,Licensures, Dental
D011787	Quality of Health Care	The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.	Pharmacy Audit,Quality of Care,Quality of Healthcare,Audit, Pharmacy,Care Quality,Health Care Quality,Healthcare Quality,Pharmacy Audits
D002140	California	State bounded on the east by Nevada and Arizona, on the south by Mexico and the Pacific Ocean on the south and west, and on the north by Oregon.
D002983	Clinical Competence	The capability to perform acceptably those duties directly related to patient care.	Clinical Skills,Competence, Clinical,Clinical Competency,Clinical Skill,Competency, Clinical,Skill, Clinical,Skills, Clinical,Clinical Competencies,Competencies, Clinical
D003479	Curriculum	A course of study offered by an educational institution.	Curricula,Short-Term Courses,Course, Short-Term,Courses, Short-Term,Short Term Courses,Short-Term Course
D004498	Education, Dental, Continuing	Educational programs designed to inform dentists of recent advances in their fields.	Dental Education, Continuing,Continuing Dental Education,Continuing Dental Educations,Dental Educations, Continuing,Education, Continuing Dental,Educations, Continuing Dental
D006113	United Kingdom	Country in northwestern Europe including Great Britain and the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland, located between the North Sea and north Atlantic Ocean. The capital is London.	Great Britain,Isle of Man
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D020375	Education, Distance	Education via communication media (correspondence, radio, television, computer networks) with little or no in-person face-to-face contact between students and teachers. (ERIC Thesaurus, 1997)	Correspondence Courses,Distance Education,Distance Learning,Online Education,Online Learning,Correspondence Course,Course, Correspondence,Education, Online,Learning, Distance,Learning, Online,Online Educations