Workshop Held On “Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS)”

The Department of Dental Education facilitated a full-day workshop on the workplace-based assessment tool “Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS)” as a part of its long-running faculty development program. The workshop was held on Thursday, 24^th August 2023. All clinical heads of departments, along with senior faculty members nominated by them, attended the workshop.

The major themes covered in the workshop were an introduction to workplace-based assessments in general and DOPS in particular. The salient features and recommendations for effective conduction of DOPS, along with the critically important ‘Art of Providing Specific & Actionable Feedback’ to students and postgraduates.

The salient MIT was interactive small group discussions along with the conduction of roleplays by the participants as the hands-on activity of the workshop. Some of the various active learning and engagement activities/tools utilised were word cloud generated by Poll Everywhere, voting on Padlet, and a gamified quiz on Kahoot. 04 videos were displayed during the workshop regarding roleplay demonstrations of DOPS conduction and quality feedback.