[Speaker guidelines lecturing in continuing education].

Abstract

Continuing Education in Europe is now named Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and concerns both Compulsory (56.7%) and Voluntary (43.3%) education programs. Since the target population is very important, it is obvious that there is a need creating an adapted teaching system. The responsibility of the education is mainly devoted to the organizations usually the Dental authorities, Universities and Dental National associations. Moreover the Speaker is the central person in charge of.the transmission of the knowledge and the skill. Therefore a proper evaluation is an imperative necessity. Generally the use of questionnaire is utilized in order to ascertain the satisfaction of the Dentists of the Lectures. In this three year survey an attempt to set up Speaker Guidelines was launched. The results showed that with a specific approach there is an increase of the motivation and the satisfaction.