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FDI World Dental Federation
Today there is a growing awareness and recognition of patient safety as a vital factor
in health care. There is also a perceived need to look closely at procedures successfully
adopted in other professional environments, notably business safety, to see how
they can be adapted into the health-care situation. With this comes a pressing need
for students in all forms of health-care practice to learn and understand how to
manage and deal with adverse events, ensuring at the same time a high degree of
patient safety.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Patient Safety Curriculum Guide: Multiprofessional
Edition is an important resource: not only will it raise global awareness
of the need for patient safety education, but it will also help educators integrate the
concept of safety into existing health-care curricula.
This will contribute towards building a foundation of knowledge and skills to better
prepare students for clinical practice and help develop a future workforce of healthcare
professionals educated in patient safety and capable of meeting the demands
of today’s complex environments.
In the past year, FDI World Dental Federation has sought to review its global oral
health strategies and identify key global issues and regional priorities. One of the
issues raised was quality assurance and improvement with respect to patient safety
and patient communication/information. It is therefore heartening to see that issues
raised are so immediately translated into workable, usable educational materials,
based on concepts derived from industry practice.
The concept of patient safety as a ‘core’ attitude to be introduced early on in dental
training is one that FDI has long championed. The prominence this WHO syllabus
gives to training future dentists in the techniques of practising patient safety in all
aspects of their work augurs well for their future careers and the future of dentistry
in the world.
FDI is proud to have been involved in this collaborative project with WHO: it is very
much a part of the process we have instigated to further the cause of oral health and
pursue goals in continuing education. It also usefully integrates dentistry into the
other health professions, highlighting the common principles that govern their
approach to patient safety.
Dr Roberto Vianna
President
FDI World Dental Federation
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