NHS funding for dental undergraduate human disease teaching in the UK: a 20-year review.

ABSTRACT: Introduction This study identifies funding of NHS services supporting dental students' teaching over the last 20 years, focusing on human disease (HD) teaching.Aims To identify NHS funding for education in UK dental schools following publication of the 1997 General Dental Council curriculum introducing specific funding for HD teaching and the years 2015/16 to 2019/20.Material and methods Searches of the medical literature, grey literature (government and regulatory authority reports, legislative articles) and freedom of information requests to hospitals helping to deliver teaching.Results There are few publications describing current funding of dental undergraduate teaching. Freedom of information requests gave data for NHS hospital allocations for teaching both clinical dentistry and HD.

SUBMITTER: Atkin PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9616713 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature