Department of Pediatric Dentistry, PDM Dental College and Research Institute, Sarai Aurangabad, Bahadurgarh, Haryana 124507, India.
J Dent Educ. 2012 Mar;76(3):372-6.
Undergraduate dental education programs have grown tremendously in India over the last five to six decades, mainly in the private sector, putting significant pressure on resources including faculty. This has raised concerns about the quality of dental education in the country. This article examines the concept of quality as applicable to higher education. It provides a roadmap for application of quality concepts, including steps for improving the effectiveness of teaching and applying Total Quality Management to dental education. It also makes suggestions for college-level and structural-level changes to meet the requirement of improved quality, which includes the addition of dental education as a subject in postgraduate dental programs.
在过去的五六十年里，印度的本科生牙科学教育项目有了巨大的发展，主要集中在私立部门，这给包括教师在内的资源带来了巨大的压力。这引起了人们对该国牙科学教育质量的关注。本文探讨了适用于高等教育的质量概念。它为质量概念的应用提供了一个路线图，包括提高教学效果的步骤和将全面质量管理应用于牙科学教育。它还为满足提高质量的要求提出了学院和结构层面的改革建议，包括将牙科学教育作为研究生牙科学项目的一门学科。
