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J Dent Educ. 69(2): 229-231 2005
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Critical Issues in Dental Education

Further Dialogue on Ethics in Dental Education: A Response to the Koerber et al. and Jenson Articles

Charles N. Bertolami, D.D.S., D.Med.Sc.

Key words: ethics, dental curricula

In this article, I respond to the critiques of my article "Why Our Ethics Curricula Don’t Work" ( J Dent Educ 2004; 68:414–25) by Koerber et al. and by Jenson that are published in this issue. I maintain that there are assertions ascribed to me by Koerber et al. that are not contained in my original work. These include the assertions that "ethics in dental schools should be taught as a precurriculum prior to entering dental school, that the dental school ethics course should be elective," and that the precurriculum should replace existing ethics courses rather than supplement them. My original article proposed a need to supplement the existing courses (not to replace them or make them electives) and that this supplementary experience should come "very early in the dental educational experience to address the disconnect between knowledge and action." Further, I qualify Jenson’s opinion that we can say our ethics curriculum does work as true only when we ask little of it, and the less we ask, the more successful it will appear to be.




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