Bernabé Eduardo, Bernal Juan B, Beltrán-Neira Roberto J
Department of Social Dentistry, Faculty of Stomatology, Avenida Honorio Delgado 430, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 31, Peru.
J Dent Educ. 2006 Aug;70(8):875-83.
There has been a growing interest among dental educators regarding the opportunities offered by community-based dental education as a means to allow dental students to assume their role as health professionals in the real world. Although several dental schools have integrated community-based education into their curricula, most have not engaged their students in the development of competencies to address dental health needs at the community level. The purpose of this article is to discuss the teaching-learning experiences in dental public health at the undergraduate level in the Faculty of Stomatology at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (FS-UPCH) in Lima, Peru. The teaching-learning activities in dental public health at the FS-UPCH consist of two well-defined stages: experiences in low-income urban communities and experiences in low-income rural communities. Both stages have been designed to make it possible for students to acquire competency in addressing oral health needs at the community level as well as to enlarge and deepen their knowledge about the social and health situation in Peru. In community-based dental education, students are not only placed in community settings to treat individual patients, but also challenged to consider dental public health issues, including the administrative aspects of dental services.
牙科教育工作者越来越关注基于社区的牙科教育所提供的机会，以此作为让牙科学生在现实世界中承担起健康专业人员角色的一种方式。尽管几所牙科学院已将基于社区的教育纳入其课程，但大多数院校尚未让学生参与培养应对社区层面牙齿健康需求的能力。本文旨在探讨秘鲁利马卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚大学牙科学院（FS - UPCH）本科阶段牙科公共卫生的教学经验。FS - UPCH的牙科公共卫生教学活动包括两个明确的阶段：低收入城市社区的经历和低收入农村社区的经历。这两个阶段的设计目的都是让学生能够获得应对社区层面口腔健康需求的能力，同时扩大并加深他们对秘鲁社会和健康状况的了解。在基于社区的牙科教育中，学生不仅被安排在社区环境中治疗个体患者，还面临着思考牙科公共卫生问题的挑战，包括牙科服务的管理方面。
