George McDonagh, validation test engineer and University teacher for Decontamination Sciences at the University of Glasgow Dental Hospital and School, and Professor Andrew J Smith, Professor of Clinical Bacteriology, honorary consultant microbiologist, and lead microbiology consultant for Decontamination, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, at the same establishment, describe the instrument decontamination teaching being provided to dental students on the Bachelor of Dental Surgery module at the Dental Hospital and School.
The module’s objective is to give the students sufficient knowledge and skills to allow them to manage a local decontamination unit (LDU) within their own dental practice.
Our current undergraduate dental curriculum was introduced in 2004, and is highly acclaimed. It has received very positive student feedback, including overall 100% satisfaction in the National Students Survey for 2011, 2012, and 2013. Glasgow Dental School was identified as the UK’s top dental school in the UK in the 2014 Complete University Guide (www.gla.ac.uk/schools/dental).
Following a number of surveys carried out into instrument decontamination in Scottish dental practices,1 the most prominent being 2004’s ‘Glennie Group report’ (Glennie Review Group HDL (2001) 66),2 it became apparent that there were shortcomings in the education and training of dental students in instrument decontamination skills.
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