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CALATRAVA ORAMAS, Luis Alonso. Educación por competencias en odontología. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2010, vol.48, n.1, pp.101-106. ISSN 0001-6365.

At the moment, the education by competitions is clearly a tendency, which extends to most of the educative centers. Its presence within the educative panorama requires to be studied, to know it and to include/understand it, besides to identify the options that its implementation are and to choose the one that can be adapted to the own characteristics of the country. The educative model by integrated professional competitions for the superior education is an option that it looks for to generate processes of greater quality, but without losing the necessities of the society, the profession, and the development to discipline and the academic work

Palavras-chave : competencies; curriculum; dental education.