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Standardisation and Calibration of Examiners Session for NHMS 2017:
National Oral Health Survey of Schoolchildren 2017
Source: Oral Health Programme MoH, 2017
OTHER ORAL HEALTH RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Other oral health research activities conducted in 2017 were as follows:
• Review of applications from other agencies for conduct of research in dental facilities in MoH.
• Monitoring of State Health System Research, preparation for publication of the Compendium of
Abstracts 2016 and 2017 and compilation of the Compendium of Abstracts 2018 and 2019.
• Review of oral health research manuscripts for publication and abstracts for presentations of
research findings in the MoH.
• Ethical review of oral health research proposals under the Medical Ethics Committee at the Faculty
of Dentistry, University Malaya (the Oral Health Programme, MoH is a permanent member of this
Committee).
ORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Oral Health Programme has made significant strides to improve personal development as well as
career pathways for all oral health personnel.
ALTERNATIVE TRAINING PATHWAY IN DENTAL POST GRADUATE TRAINING
Based on the country’s need, more dental officers are needed to pursue postgraduate training. Thus,
an alternative pathway approach was suggested to produce more dental specialists to meet the target.
The alternative pathway training in the medical field has started a few years back. In August 2017, the
Director General of Health had visited the Dental Faculty of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) of
England and a discussion was conducted with its Dean, Professor Michael Escudier on extending the
alternative pathway to the Oral Health Programme, MoH.
A follow up visit to the Faculty of Dental Surgery RCS of England was held on 3 October 2017, led
by the Principal Director of Oral Health. The discussion focused on establishing dental alternative
pathway training in collaboration with the Dental Faculty of RCS of England and to begin with the field
of Orthodontics.
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