2020 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 243-256
One of the major purposes of dental education is to acquire clinical ability. Dentists should fulfill the patients’ requirements by flexibly applying these clinical ability based on proper knowledge. Especially, prosthodontic treatment requires not only the ability of prosthodontic diagnosis, but also high technical skills. In 2020, a skill examination, as part of the post-clinical clerkship clinical performance examination (Post-CC CPX), will be introduced officially in Japan. This movement is in response to the recent social demand for assuring the clinical ability of dental students upon graduation because the environment of students’ clinical training has dramatically changed and become more complicated with the super-aging of society. Moreover, the Japan Prosthodontic Society introduced a technical skills competition for dental students this year. In this paper, we discuss clear outcomes, methods and assessments of technical training in prosthodontics. As specialists of prosthodontics, we should reconsider how technical training should be as members of an educational institute whose mission is to train high-quality dental students.
