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GED Workshop: Standard setting OSCE stations

Wednesday, 20th August 2025 - 14:00 to 15:30

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Timezone:

Dublin (IST, UTC+1)

Venue:

Room 119 TCDBS

Session type:

Type 1: Organised, planned and delivered by the ADEE

GED Workshop: Standard setting

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Session synopsis:

Following the very positive reception to the GED Taskforce's workshop in Leuven in 2024 focusing on OSCE development in alignment with ADEE's GED Framework, this year the taskforce delivers a hands-on training session on standards setting OSCE stations

Last year's material is available here - and we will do the same with the material derived from this year's session

Programme:

14:00 Welcome

14:05 The importance of standard setting, and ways of standard setting for an OSCE

14:30 Group activity - setting the standard

15:15 Feedback and key take aways

15:25 Closing comments and next steps

Chair:

James Field

Professor in Restorative Dentistry and Dental Education

Cardiff University

Prof James Field is currently a Professor in Restorative Dentistry and Dental Education and also the Cardiff University School of Dentistry's Director of Digital Education. He is a long-term active member of ADEE having most recently co-chaired the very successful Bridging the Clinical Gap special interest group and workshop.

James is academic lead for the ADEE European DigEdDent (Digital Education in Dentistry) portal, was lead author for the ADEE's Graduating European Dentist Curriculum Taskforce and Global lead for Shaping The Future of Dental Education: Interprofessional Education stream. He also represents Cardiff University as the trans-national partner in O-Health-Edu, an Erasmus+ K2 project to harmonise dental education across Europe.

Speakers:

Julia Davies

ADEE Treasurer

Association for Dental Education in Europe (ADEE)

Professor Julia Davies ADEE Treasurer from January 2021 - December 2026. She is Professor at the Department of Oral Biology in Malmö University. Sweden. Her special educational interests are assessment in relation to student-centered, activity-based learning and the challenges associated with integration of basic sciences into clinical teaching in the dental curriculum.

Sibylle Vital

Professor of Pediatric Dentistry

Université Paris Cité

Professor Sibylle Vital graduated from the University of Paris Descartes in 2003. She completed a PhD in Oral Biology at the University of Paris Descartes in 2006 and a post-doctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco, USA in 2007. She is a full-time Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at University of Paris. From 2013-2016, she was head of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics and she is currently Vice Dean for Academic Affairs. She serves on the review board of the EJDE since 2014. Active member of ADEE since 2010, Sibylle is a member of the ADEE Executive Committee.

Jonathan Dixon

Clinical Academic Fellow in Restorative Dentistry

University of Sheffield, UK

Jonathan is a clinical academic at the School of Clinical Dentistry at the University of Sheffield. In his role as an educator, Jonathan leads the undergraduate clinical skills teaching and is also the sustainability lead for the school. He is an educational researcher and played a central role in publishing numerous outputs from the O-Health-Edu project. Jonathan’s PhD explored how the dental curriculum evolves to incorporate new topics and used environmental sustainability as a case study.

He has co-chaired various special-interests groups at annual ADEE conferences and has collaborated with ADEE and the FDI World Dental Federation to disseminate his work on embedding environmental sustainability in the curriculum. Jonathan is currently completing his specialist clinical training in Periodontics.

Learning Outcomes:

Define and review the importance of standard setting
Discuss the ways of standard setting for OSCE stations
Discuss various standard sets and how these can be rationalised