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title: "What Is Feedback? Dental Practice Glossary | Copeland Consulting Services"
description: "Specific information about performance, compared with a standard and given to the person with the aim of helping them improve, as defined in health professions..."
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Leadership and communication

# Feedback

Specific information about performance, compared with a standard and given to the person with the aim of helping them improve, as defined in health professions education.

Feedback is information about how someone is doing. A review in health professions education defines feedback as specific information about the comparison between trainees' observed performance and a standard, given with the intent to improve the trainees' performance.

In a dental office it can come from a dentist to an assistant, from a lead to a new hire, or between peers. It helps most when it is specific, timely and tied to a clear standard such as a [job description](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/job-description). It supports [coaching](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/coaching) and each [performance review](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/performance-review).

The definition above comes from education research. Offices use the word more broadly. This entry gives a general definition only.

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## Related terms

-   [Coaching](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/coaching)
-   [Performance review](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/performance-review)
-   [Job description](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/job-description)
-   [Active listening](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/active-listening)
-   [Accountability](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/accountability)

## Sources

1.  [PMC, The Practice of Feedback in Health Professions Education](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9583993/)

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