8. Educational evaluation system

To cultivate competent oral health experts, providing high quality educational environment is not good enough. Fair and strict evaluation system is necessary to judge whether the resident has acquired scientific knowledge, skills and ethics qualified for an oral health expert by adopting the principle of competition at the clinic where training is given to the resident.

The residents are required to participate in diagnosing, planning treatments for, and treating an average of 80 new and transferred patients with malocclusions, including congenital craniofacial anomalies. We assess the orthodontic treatment results achieved by the residents at the end of the course.

Prior to starting active treatment the residents must present each new patient's case to the Faculty. The Faculty must accept the final treatment plan, and the bay instructors must sign the plan. If the patient is seen infrequently, the resident must inform the bay instructor of the reasons. If there is a problem with patient cooperation in terms of keeping appointments or using the orthodontic appliances, the residents must contact their instructors immediately.
Following the completion of the four-year course, the Department provides the students with a final evaluation test by which faculty members assess the training results. Each student is required to submit 5 clinical cases of which he or she has been in charge. All faculty members grade each case on a scale of 100 points, totaling 500 possible points. Sixty percent is required to pass. To qualify for employment within the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics at the University Dental Hospital students must achieve a minimum of 70% on the exams. Certificates of completion of residency training are awarded to those who pass the test. Each student must either present the evaluation test cases at scientific meetings, or submit them to scientific journals as case reports.