South East Asia Association for Dental Education

SEAADE Peer Review and Consulatation Visitation

There are many challenges that are common to dental institutions in the region. They include producing dental professionals of high quality that can contribute effectively to meet the manpower needs for oral health care of their nations. They need to attract and maintain a permanent pool of excellent scholars to provide this training. There is also need to develop cost-effective learning resources and support facilities and produce skilled dental graduates that possess the ability to think critically and adopt a life-long learning attitude.

Periodic assessment of the educational program by independent international professional bodies contributes to quality improvement and assurance. Such assessment exercise will provide a critical review on the strengths and weaknesses of the program. Comprehensive reports received from such visits can assist administrators of dental institutions to engineer change in reducing inappropriate and unnecessary portions and justify grant applications to strengthen the program.

SEAADE as the primary regional association focused on dental education has established a Peer Review and Consultation service to assist dental institutions in the region in this process. It is envisaged that such an extended role of SEAADE will lead to progressive strengthening of the dental institutions in the region to achieve and maintain high quality standards. In addition it will enhance networking amongst dental educators in the region, improve understanding and facilitate collaboration as well as allow sharing of solutions, innovations and best practices.

A structured assessment document for self-evaluation by the institution has been developed for this purpose. This tool will be provided free to Institutional members on request and for a nominal fee to non-members. After completing the document, the institution can register interest to host an on-site visitation by 3-5 members of SEAADE’s Peer Review and Consultation Panel. Institutional members will need only to provide travel expenses, accommodation and hospitality for the visitors. Non-members will have to bear an additional cost of consultation fee to be paid to SEAADE. The fee will be dependent on whether it is for a full dental program assessment or for specific areas of the program.

The dental schools who have so far participated in this program are:-

1) College of Dentistry, Centro Escolar University
Manila, Philippines.
Dates: July 1st – July 4th 2005
Visiting Panel:
Professor Toh Chooi Gait – University of Malaya, Malaysia (Chairperson)
Professor Margaret B. Comfort – Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology, Malaysia
Associate. Professor Keng Siong Beng – National University of Singapore
Professor F. C. Smales – Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology, Malaysia. (Rapporteur)

2) Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia
Dates: November 26th to 29th, 2005
Visiting Panel:
Professor Toh Chooi Gait – University of Malaya, Malaysia (Chairperson)
Professor Margaret B. Comfort – Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology, Malaysia
Professor Krassanai Wangrangsimakul - Prince of Songkhla University, Thailand
Professor F. C. Smales – Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology, Malaysia. (Rapporteur)

The reports of the visits were submitted and permission granted to be published on SEAADE website.

Report by Prof Toh Chooi Gait (Chairperson of program)

3) School of Dental Sciences, UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA

The SEAADE Peer Review Visit took place from August 26th to 29th, 2006 at the School of Dental Sciences premises located on the Health Campus of Universiti Sains Malaysia at Kota Bharu in Kelantan State. The School initiated the Visit by sending a formal request to the Chairman of the SEAADE Peer Review and Consultation Committee. Subsequently they submitted a completed SEAADE Visitation Self– Assessment Document for the Visitors, that were received by them a few weeks prior to the Visit.

The Visitors on this occasion were from the SEAADE Visitations Panel as follows:

Professor Toh Chooi Gait – University of Malaya, Malaysia (Chairperson)
Professor Lim Kwong Cheung – University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Grace Ong Hui Lian– National University of Singapore, Singapore
Professor F. C. Smales – Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology, Malaysia. (Rapporteur)

Report by Prof Toh Chooi Gait (Chairperson of program)

4) Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Thailand

The SEAADE Peer Review Visit took place from August 5th to 8th, 2007 at the Faculty of Dentistry premises at the Phayathai Campus and Salaya Campus both of which are in the city of Bangkok. The Faculty initiated the Visit by sending a formal request to the Chairman of the SEAADE Peer Review and Consultation Committee. Subsequently they submitted a completed SEAADE Visitation Self–Assessment Document for the Reviewers, so it arrived a few weeks before the Visit by the arrangement of the International Relations Unit of the Faculty.

The Reviewers on this occasion were from the SEAADE Visitations Panel as follows:

Professor Toh Chooi Gait – University of Malaya, Malaysia (Chairperson)
Professor Lakshman Samaranyake – University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Grace Ong Hui Lian– National University of Singapore, Singapore
Professor F. C. Smales – AIMST University, Malaysia. (Rapporteur)

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