The min imum requirements to practice as a competent dentist have always been under the scanner. While universit ies and dental boards around the world have constantly endeavored to produce and maintain a quality dentist, there have often been questions on how the respective skills are to be assessed. Presently competency-based education focuses on developing the professional skills, which are ...

Mitigating soil erosion, especially in Mediterranean countries such as Greece, is essential in order to maintain environmental and agricultural sustainability. In this paper, scientific publications related to soil erosion studies in Greece were reviewed and categorized. To accomplish this, the online search engine of Scopus was used. The key words were “soil”, “erosion” and “Greece.” An analys...

How many inpatient paediatric units do we need? EDITOR,-In his article on paediatric inpa-tient units, Professor Taylor claims that many present paediatric units are too small to provide safe and cost effective care, do not meet required standards, and should combine into larger units providing specialist children's services.' We would disagree with him, at least with regard to rural communitie...