Generic Skills

• Possess the spirit of teamwork, especially in interdisciplinary situations and to master the functioning of the Cameroonian health system;
• Be responsible and reflective;
• Recognize your emotions and use them with the necessary professional skills;
• Have proven trust and confidence;
• Have critical ability and questioning;
• Develop ethical and a professional values;
• Possess interpersonal and marketing skills
• Act with autonomy and responsibility in the well-defined fields of its function.

Specific skills

• Provide essential dental therapy in the absence of the dental surgeon;
• Assist the dental surgeon to carry out consultations and more complicated procedures;
• Provide consultative, educational, research and other advisory services;
• Acquire the ability to adapt dental care to African conditions (the Cameroonian context as well) by using his/her creativity to devise therapy using local materials and to function comfortably in the African (Cameroonian) sociological context;
• Demonstrate a basic ability to appropriately use orthodontic instruments and equipment
• To provide a course of education and training that will enable dental therapists to assist an orthodontist in the provision of treatment and preventive services.