Comparison of dental licensure, specialization and continuing education in five countries.

Dental practice and education are becoming more globalized. Greater practitioner and patient mobility, the free flow of information, increasingly global standards of care and new legal and economic frameworks (such as European Union [EU] legislation) are forcing a review of dental licensure, specialization and continuing education systems. The objective of this study was to compare these systems in Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the US.

Dental concepts in the Unified Medical Language System.

Objective: Currently, no comprehensive, controlled vocabulary for dentistry is available. The objective of this study was to determine how well the Unified Medical Language System, the largest repository of concepts and terms in biomedicine, represents dental concepts.

Method And Materials: The dental subset of concepts was extracted from Unified Medical Language System using the software program APEX (APplication for the EXtraction of domain-specific concepts).

A cognitive approach for designing a computer-based learning tool in dentistry: ODONTOS application.

This work emphasises a cognitive approach to build ODONTOS, a computer-based education system in dentistry. It aims at providing for both instructors and students without any particular knowledge in computer programming; a tool dedicated to dental disease learning. For instructors, it implements for knowledge construction e.

Knowledge acquisition to qualify Unified Medical Language System interconceptual relationships.

Adding automatically relations between concepts from a database to a knowledge base such as the Unified Medical Language System can be very useful to increase the consistency of the latter one. But the transfer of qualified relationships is more interesting. The most important interest of these new acquisitions is that the UMLS became more compliant and medically pertinent to be used in different medical applications.

A method for an automated decomposition of a complex term into its conceptual components.

The paper deals with the improvement of the MAOUSSC model (Modèle d'Aide et d'Orientation d'un Utilisateur au Sein des Systèmes de Codage) and system. Its specific purpose is the automation of the description of medical and surgical procedures. We have developed an automatic decomposition method using a linguistic and conceptual approach based on the UMLS knowledge base.