Association for Dental Education in Europe

Learning together to improve oral health and quality of life

Selected Oral 4: Curriculum

Thursday, 21st August 2025 - 14:00 to 15:30
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Timezone: 

Dublin (IST, UTC+1)

Venue: 

Dargan A TCDBS

Session type: 
Type 1: Organised, planned and delivered by the ADEE
Session synopsis: 
A collection of short oral presentations drawn from abstract submission. The session aims to encourage wide dissemination of presenters work and offers them an opportunity to engage in discussion and questions and answers with delegates. 

This session focuses on curriculum.

Programme: 

14:00

Welcome

Chair

14:05

The development of a competence framework for the Dental education in Malmö

Sofia Petrén
Malmö University
Faculty of Odontology, Sweden

14:20

A Pilot Curriculum for DCPs: Using Simulation and EPAs to Teach Fluoride Varnish Application

Ruth Jones
UK

14:35

Basic Sciences Curriculum In Istanbul Kent University Faculty Of Dentistry- Success Rate In The Committee System And Student Pe

Yegane Guven
Istanbul Kent University, Türkiye

14:50

The Aarhus Model of Dental Education: A Case Study on Developing Interdisciplinary Dental Curricula

Irene Dige
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

15:05

Horizontal and vertical integration model for undergraduate prosthodontic curriculum

Nareudee Limpuangthip
Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

15:20

Evaluating Knowledge Gains, Confidence, and Information-Seeking Behavior in Evidence-Based Dentistry Among Senior Dental Student

Dalia Meisha
King Abdulaziz University, KSA

15:35

Discussion and close

Chair

Chair: 

Katleen Vandamme

Professor of Restorative Dentistry – Implant Prosthodontics
KU Leuven, Belgium

Katleen is professor of Restorative Dentistry of the Department of Oral Health Sciences at the KU Leuven Belgium, where she is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education and training in oral implantology. She also holds the position of Coordinator of the Institute of Osseointegration KU Leuven. Her research interests include evidence-based dentistry,  mechanobiology in implant osseointegration, bone biology (in particular impaired bone conditions such as diabetes), skeletal tissue engineering, and teaching modalities and analytics. Katleen is president of BVOI/SBIO (Belgische Vereniging voor Orale Implantologie/Société Belge de l’Implantologie Orale), Education Delegate of the International Team for Implantology (ITI) BeLux. Katleen is a member of ADEE's regional council and is the chair of this year’s ADEE local organising committee.

Blánaid Daly

Dean
Dublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity College Dublin

Blánaid Daly is Professor of Special Care Dentistry and current Dean at the School of Dental Science, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) within the Dublin Dental University Hospital (DDUH). After qualifying as a dentist from TCD, and prior to working at the Dublin Dental University Hospital, Blánaid worked in the public/community dental services. Blánaid joined the Dental School at King's College London (KCL) and studied for a PhD in Dental Public Health (DPH). For the last thirty years, Blánaid combined her academic interest in DPH with the clinical dental specialty of Special Care Dentistry, when returning to Trinity in 2016 as Professor of Special Care Dentistry. In 2020 Blánaid was appointed to the Lancet Commission on Global Oral Health Inequalities and was joint winner of the Aubrey Sheiham award for distinguished research in dental public health, from the International Association of Dental Research (IADR). Prof Blánaid Daly was appointed Dean of Dental Affairs and Head of School at the School of Dental Science January 2022. Blánaid’s overarching theme of research interest is in the reduction of oral health inequalities for people living with disabilities and vulnerable groups.