Episode 15
The Operative Skills Teaching Environment with Professor James Field
In this episode, we speak with James about the Operative Skills Teaching Environment and how innovations in this area have transformed education over time.
Where to listen
Professor James Field is Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Dental Education at Cardiff University. Alongside this role, James also works as Director of Learning and Teaching and Director of Digital Education for the School of Dentistry. James is also a National Teaching Fellow and has worked extensively with other universities here in the UK and internationally to reform curriculum as the Global Lead for Shaping The Future of Dental Education: Interprofessional Education.
In this episode, I speak with James about the Operative Skills Teaching Environment and how innovations in this area have transformed education over time. I also lean on James to explicate how he thinks changes to this environment will impact dentistry education going forward.
Links mentioned in the episode:
In the episode, we touch briefly on some of the research papers James has contributed on below:
- Field, J. et al. 2022. O‐Health‐Edu: A vision for oral health professional education in Europe. European Journal of Dental Education (1111/eje.12819)
- Towers, A., Dixon, J., Field, J., Martin, R. and Martin, N. 2022. Combining virtual reality and 3D printed models to simulate patient-specific dental operative procedures – a study exploring student perceptions. European Journal of Dental Education 26(2), pp. 393-403. (1111/eje.12715)
- Field, J. et al. 2021. Defining dental operative skills curricula: an ADEE consensus paper. European Journal of Dental Education 25(2), pp. 405-414. (1111/eje.12595)