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The Examiner Training and Reliability Committee provides guidelines on how to teach\/learn DC\/TMD at three levels: Self-instruction, a two-day didactic course, and a two-day didactic course + reliability assessment. The Committee also keeps an updated list of official DC\/TMD Training Centers, Reference Standard Examiners and Protocol Supervisors. In addition, the Committee promotes creation of new Consortium DC\/TMD Training Centers, which is essential for the implementation of DC\/TMD in both general dentistry and speciality care.Training and Calibration Guidelines<\/strong>Examiner training, calibration and reliability are fundamental parts of the DC\/TMD in order to achieve reliable and comparable diagnostic results. The Network\u2019s Guidelines for Training, Calibration and Reliability Assessment descibes requirements for the three main levels of training and calibration: from self-instruction to training and calibration with and without reliability assessment.The Guidelines also list Training and Calibration Centers, Protocol Supervisors and Reference Standard Examiners who may assist in examiner training.Instructional videos and documentation for DC\/TMD training<\/strong>Training documentation and instruction videos can be found on the right side. Materials in other languages can be developed and posted here.\n

The Consortium Committee for Training and Reliability
Michail Koutris, Chair (m.koutris@acta.nl<\/a>)
ACTA University
Netherlands<\/p>\n<\/td>

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More…<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Resource<\/a><\/th>\nLink<\/a><\/th>\nModified Date<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Training and Calibration Guidelines<\/td>\nOpen<\/a><\/td>\n       Aug 16, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DC\/TMD examination instructional video: English<\/td>\nOpen<\/a><\/td>\n      published November 20,       2014 at MedEdPORTAL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DC\/TMD examination instructional video: Swedish<\/td>\nOpen<\/a><\/td>\n      October 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Consortium DC\/TMD Training Centers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Center<\/a><\/th>\nContact<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Aarhus University, Denmark<\/td>\nKarina Bendixen<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leipzig University, Germany<\/td>\nOliver Schierz<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Malm\u00f6 University, Sweden<\/td>\nPer Alstergren<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
National University of Singapore, Singapore<\/td>\nPeter Svensson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nihon University, Japan<\/td>\nKomiyama Osamu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oulu University, Finland<\/td>\nKirsi Sipil\u00e4<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ume\u00e5 University, Sweden<\/td>\nCatharina \u00d6sterlund<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The Examiner Training and Reliability Committee provides guidelines on how to teach\/learn DC\/TMD at three levels: Self-instruction, a two-day didactic course, and a two-day didactic course + reliability assessment. The Committee also keeps an updated list of official DC\/TMD Training Centers, Reference Standard Examiners and Protocol Supervisors. In addition, the Committee promotes creation of new Consortium DC\/TMD Training Centers, which is essential for the implementation of DC\/TMD in both general dentistry and speciality care.Training and Calibration GuidelinesExaminer training, calibration and reliability are fundamental parts of the DC\/TMD in order to achieve reliable and comparable diagnostic results. The Network\u2019s Guidelines for Training, Calibration and Reliability Assessment descibes requirements for the three main levels of training and calibration: from self-instruction to training and calibration with and without reliability assessment.The Guidelines also list Training and Calibration Centers, Protocol Supervisors and Reference Standard Examiners who may assist in examiner training.Instructional videos and documentation for DC\/TMD trainingTraining documentation and instruction videos can be found on the right side. Materials in other languages can be developed and posted here. The Consortium Committee for Training and ReliabilityMichail Koutris, Chair (m.koutris@acta.nl)ACTA UniversityNetherlands More… Resource Link Modified Date Training and Calibration Guidelines Open        Aug 16, 2021 DC\/TMD examination instructional video: English Open       published November 20,       2014 at MedEdPORTAL DC\/TMD examination instructional video: Swedish Open       October 2014 Consortium DC\/TMD Training Centers Center Contact Aarhus University, Denmark Karina Bendixen Leipzig University, Germany Oliver Schierz Malm\u00f6 University, Sweden Per Alstergren National University of Singapore, Singapore Peter Svensson Nihon University, Japan Komiyama Osamu Oulu University, Finland Kirsi Sipil\u00e4 Ume\u00e5 University, Sweden Catharina \u00d6sterlund x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":116,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inform-iadr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inform-iadr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inform-iadr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inform-iadr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inform-iadr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inform-iadr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/inform-iadr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/1404"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inform-iadr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inform-iadr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}