Department of Restorative Dentistry and Comprehensive Care, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
J Dent Educ. 2012 Apr;76(4):454-60.
Clinical dental faculty members' lack of scholarly activity not only impacts their ability to be promoted and retained in their institutions but limits the contributions they could make to clinical discovery. Contributing factors to this situation include the lack of purposeful mentoring and the widespread faculty shortages, which increase faculty workloads. One way to address this challenge is to develop and implement formal mentoring programs, endorsed by the dental school's administration, that use reward structures in which novice clinical faculty members are teamed with faculty members experienced in scholarly activity. The Clinical Research Scholars Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine has been in existence since 2008. Preliminary data from this program suggest that this has been a successful plan for increasing the scholarly activity of the clinical teacher-scholar. Although not without limitations, this program may serve as a model for other schools to consider as they encourage their own clinical faculty members to undertake research initiatives. Similar programs at dental schools across the country can enhance discovery, research, and treatment by expanding the number of researchers who are addressing the public's oral and systemic health needs.
临床牙科学院教师缺乏学术活动，不仅影响他们在所在机构获得晋升和留任的能力，还限制了他们在临床发现方面的贡献。造成这种情况的因素包括缺乏有针对性的指导和广泛的师资短缺，这增加了教师的工作量。解决这一挑战的一种方法是制定并实施正式的指导计划，该计划得到牙科学院管理部门的认可，并采用奖励机制，将新手临床教师与在学术活动方面经验丰富的教师组成团队。匹兹堡大学牙医学院的临床研究学者计划自 2008 年以来一直在实施。该计划的初步数据表明，这是提高临床教学人员学术活动的成功计划。尽管存在局限性，但该计划可以作为其他学校的一个模式，供他们在鼓励自己的临床教师开展研究计划时考虑。全国牙科学校的类似计划可以通过增加解决公众口腔和全身健康需求的研究人员数量来促进发现、研究和治疗。
