'Competency' has become a substantial and a global key-word for redefining and reforming the professional education, so it‘s very urgent to understand the concept, viewpoint, and peculiarity of competency-based education. So the researcher tried to review the basic discussions on the competency-based dental education based on the competency profile of ADEA.
Competency-based education starts with the definition of the profession and competencies which the profession must have. In views of competency-based education, a general dentist must have the competency of critical thinking, professionalism, communication skills, practice management and informatics, and patient care. In order to implement the competency-based education, the goal, the contents, the way, the evaluation of education should be redefined and reformed. Competency-based dental education has the educational meaning because it can make a person realize their professional potentiality fully and make him/her contribute to the society through the self-realization.