Undergraduate endodontic teaching at the London Hospital Dental Institute

Integration, whole patient care and small group teaching are concepts which set the pattern for undergraduate teaching at 'The London'. This system promotes co-operation between disciplines, enables students to see the basic teaching in a wider clinical context, activates the learning process and gives students an opportunity to learn responsibility by running their own 'mini-practices'. Unfortunately, the system also has some undesirable effects, which are discussed with special reference to the teaching of endodontics.