<scp>O‐Health‐Edu</scp>: A vision for oral health professional education in Europe
James Field, Jonathan Dixon, Julia R. Davies, Barry Quinn, Denis Murphy, Sibylle Vital, Corrado Paganelli, Ilze Akota, Gábor Gerber, Valérie Roger‐Leroi, María Cristina Manzanares‐Céspedes, Stéphanie Tubert‐Jeannin
Abstract
This consensus paper reports on the process of developing a renewed vision for Oral Health Professional (OHP) education across Europe, and forms part of a larger EU-funded collaborative Erasmus+ project, "O-Health-Edu." The vision aligns with the World Health Organisation milestones (2016) and resolutions (2021), and EU4Health programme (2020) objectives - and projects 20 years into the future, to 2040. This longitudinal vision takes a multi-stakeholder perspective to deliver OHP education that acts in the best interests of both students and patients, and sits within the context of a wider strategy for general health. Included, it is an infographic to help communicate the vision to various stakeholders of OHP education.