Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, 305 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
J Dent Educ. 2011 Oct;75(10 Suppl):S25-35.
In the late 1990s, Ohio's citizens expressed to the state leadership that access to dental care was their greatest unmet health need. State-sponsored surveys continued to report that certain populations-the poor, disabled, and minorities-experience higher-than-average rates of dental disease and cannot access care. The Ohio State University College of Dentistry sought to respond to this need by securing a $1.5 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2002 and began an experiment in engagement with community partners unprecedented in its history. As the state's flagship dental institution, the college committed to a fundamental change in its clinical education of students and began a process of making dental education relevant to our citizens, exposing students to populations they were being trained to help, and bolstering the fragile statewide network of safety-net clinics with providers. This case history offers an operational overview, including some challenges and successes, of one school's journey in community-based dental education.
20 世纪 90 年代末，俄亥俄州的民众向州领导层表示，他们最大的未满足的健康需求是获得牙科护理。州政府资助的调查仍在报告某些人群——穷人、残疾人和少数族裔——的牙科疾病发病率高于平均水平，且无法获得治疗。俄亥俄州立大学牙科学院（Ohio State University College of Dentistry）试图通过 2002 年从罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊基金会（Robert Wood Johnson Foundation）获得 150 万美元的赠款来满足这一需求，并开始了一项与社区合作伙伴合作的实验，这在其历史上前所未有。作为该州的旗舰牙科机构，该学院承诺对学生的临床教育进行根本性改革，并开始使牙科教育与我们的公民相关联的过程，让学生接触到他们正在接受培训以帮助的人群，并为全州范围内的提供服务的基本医疗诊所网络提供支持。这个案例提供了一个基于社区的牙科教育的学校的运营概述，包括一些挑战和成功。
