Postdoctoral Dental Education

Professional Life-Long Learning Plan

Step 2: Linking Objectives with Learning Activities and Evaluation
Step 4: Evidence of accomplishment

The Planning Process

This module is designed to facilitate your journey as you become Professional Life-Long Learner. Developing a Life-Long Learning Plan is a multi-step process that allows you to organize your learning experience according to your own individual learning priorities and style. Each gathers, interprets, organizes, and thinks about information in different ways and the individualized learning plan you will develop, will allow you to accommodate your own ways of learning into your AEGD learning experience.

Objectives

We hope that the Professional Learning Plan will:

Components

The Professional Learning Plan include the following components:

Program Competencies: The AEGD competencies are written statements describing the levels of knowledge, skills and values you need to have, in order to perform a particular aspect of dental practice independently after completing the AEGD program.

Learning Objectives: Learning objectives are statements of specific tasks or behaviors that you should be able to perform after participating in a set of educational activities.

Educational Activities: Educational activities are planned activities that will help you modify your behavoir to match those behavoirs that have been specified as learning objectives. Examples of educational activities are: lectures, group discussions, laboratories, supervised patient care, workshop, self-study, etc.

Evaluation/Documentation : Evaluation is a focused, time-dependent process, undertaken to assess whether your learning objectives have been accomplished.