The KAUFD General Dentist Profile

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كلية طب الأسنان · جامعة الملك عبدالعزيز

BDS PREDOCTORAL PROGRAM · MAJOR COMPETENCY STATEMENTS

The KAUFD General Dentist Profile

Major competency statements, graduate attributes and their alignment with the Saudi National Qualifications Framework.

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Faculty of Dentistry who we are

Vision

A world-leading college in the field of dentistry.

Mission

Achieving global leadership by improving academic and research programs and providing distinguished service to the community and comprehensive patient care in oral and maxillofacial health while ensuring sustainability and continuous development.

Program goal: to graduate general dental practitioners who are competent to practice within local contexts, in accordance with contemporary global standards in oral healthcare and the National Qualification Framework.

Vision and mission: kau.edu.sa/faculty/en/dentistry · Program goal: KAUFD General Dentist Profile, Preamble

Values NQF domain: Values, Autonomy & Responsibility

Five values every graduate carries

Tap a card to read the program learning outcome behind it.

Postgraduate students at phantom-head simulation units in the KAUFD simulation laboratory Postgraduate students at phantom-head simulation units in the KAUFD simulation laboratory

Preamble since the 2018 CODA visit

Competency-based, and kept current

A competency is “a complex behavior or ability essential for the general dentist to begin independent, unsupervised dental practice” (ADEA, 2011).

Definitions based on the 2018 CODA standards

Section I graduate attributes

Section II major competency statements

Six domains, nineteen competencies

Pick a domain, then open any competency. Titles and statements are condensed from the profile.

Section III Saudi National Qualifications Framework

Twenty-four program learning outcomes

    Outcomes are condensed here; the full wording is in the KAUFD General Dentist Profile.

    Competency · PLO · NQF alignment

    A clear line of sight

    CURRICULUM

    6 Domains

    Each domain grants one graduate attribute.

    COMPETENCIES

    19 Major competencies

    7 in the professional and practice domains, 12 in Patient Care. Unchanged since CODA accreditation.

    OUTCOMES

    24 Program learning outcomes

    Refined from 19 to K1–K3, S1–S16 and V1–V5 so each can be assessed discretely.

    NATIONAL

    3 NQF learning domains

    Knowledge & Understanding, Skills, and Values, Autonomy & Responsibility.

    Appendix the alignment map

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    Trace a domain:

    Choose a curriculum domain to follow it to its graduate attribute, competencies, program learning outcomes and NQF domain. The map above follows your choice.

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    Sources

    Built on international profiles

    • Professional Attributes and Competencies of the Newly Qualified Dentist. Australian Dental Council, June 2010.
    • Plasschaert AJM, Holbrook WP, Delap E, Martinez C, Walmsley AD. The Profile and Competences for the European Dentist Document.
    • ADEA Foundation Knowledge and Skills for the New General Dentist (as approved by the 2011 ADEA House of Delegates). J Dent Educ. 2011;75(7):936–40.
    • Frank JR, Jabbour M, et al. Report of the CanMEDS Phase IV Working Groups. Ottawa: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, March 2005.
    • National Qualification Framework, NCAAA, Saudi Arabia.
    KAUFD dental graduates in black and gold bishts standing with faculty members KAUFD dental graduates in black and gold bishts standing with faculty members

    Six attributes.
    One general dentist.

    • Muslim Professional
    • Communicator & Collaborator
    • Learner & Thinker
    • Health Advocate
    • Manager
    • General Dental Practitioner

    King Abdulaziz University · Faculty of Dentistry · P.O. Box 80209, Jeddah 21589 · den.faculty@kau.edu.sa