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1School of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zeland.
Statement Of Problem:
With the use of multimedia electronic knowledge as a tool in dental education, an overriding concern has centered on how to devise an organizational model that will accommodate the vast and diverse arrays of information involved, yet be sufficiently simple enough to provide students with a rational and consistent means of accessing the information they require. By adopting the natural history of the diseases dentists are called on to address as a common organizing principle, it becomes possible to link all concepts that relate to individual problem areas through a technique of retro-mapping.
Purpose:
The purpose of this article is to introduce learners to a cognitive "scaffolding" that will assist them in achieving a deeper cognitive dimension for problem solving.