Pyle Marsha, Andrieu Sandra C, Chadwick D Gregory, Chmar Jacqueline E, Cole James R, George Mary C, Glickman Gerald N, Glover Joel F, Goldberg Jerold S, Haden N Karl, Hendricson William D, Meyerowitz Cyril, Neumann Laura, Tedesco Lisa A, Valachovic Richard W, Weaver Richard G, Winder Ronald L, Young Stephen K, Kalkwarf Kenneth L
Associate Dean for Education, Case School of Dental Education, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4905, USA.
J Dent Educ. 2006 Sep;70(9):921-4.
This article introduces a series of white papers developed by the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation (CCI) to explore the case for change in dental education. This preamble to the series argues that there is a compelling need for rethinking the approach to dental education in the United States. Three issues facing dental education are explored: 1) the challenging financial environment of higher education, making dental schools very expensive and tuition-intensive for universities to operate and producing high debt levels for students that limit access to education and restrict career choices; 2) the profession's apparent loss of vision for taking care of the oral health needs of all components of society and the resultant potential for marginalization of dentistry as a specialized health care service available only to the affluent; and 3) the nature of dental school education itself, which has been described as convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to its students.
本文介绍了美国牙科教育协会变革与创新委员会（CCI）编写的一系列白皮书，以探讨牙科教育变革的理由。该系列的前言认为，美国迫切需要重新思考牙科教育的方法。文中探讨了牙科教育面临的三个问题：1）高等教育具有挑战性的财务环境，使得牙科学院对大学来说运营成本高昂且学费密集，导致学生背负高额债务，限制了他们接受教育的机会并限制了职业选择；2）该专业在满足社会各阶层口腔健康需求方面明显缺乏愿景，以及由此可能导致牙科作为仅为富裕阶层提供的专业医疗服务而被边缘化；3）牙科学院教育本身的性质，其被描述为复杂、昂贵，且常常让学生深感不满。
