Department of Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada.
J Dent Educ. 2012 May;76(5):609-19.
Social responsibility refers to one's sense of duty to the society in which he or she lives. The Professionalism and Community Service (PACS) dental module at the University of British Columbia is based upon community service-learning and helps dental students to understand the challenges faced by vulnerable segments of the population as they actively reflect on experiences gathered from didactic and experiential activities. This article aims to illustrate the extent to which PACS has fostered awareness of social responsibility through the British Columbia Ministry of Education's Performance Standards Framework for Social Responsibility. Reflections were gathered from students in all four years of the D.M.D. program and were analyzed thematically in three categories of the framework: Contribution to the Classroom and Community, Value of Diversity in the Community, and Exercise of Responsibilities. The constant comparison analysis of the reflective qualitative data revealed that the students directly or indirectly addressed these three categories in their reflections as they synthesized their understanding of community issues and their collaborative roles as socially responsible members of the dental profession. Follow-up studies are needed to explore the impact of community-based dental education upon students' perceptions and understanding of social responsibility and professionalism regarding underserved communities.
社会责任是指个人对其生活所在社会的责任感。不列颠哥伦比亚大学的专业精神和社区服务（PACS）牙科模块以社区服务学习为基础，帮助牙科学生了解弱势群体在积极反思从理论和实践活动中获得的经验时所面临的挑战。本文旨在通过不列颠哥伦比亚省教育部的社会责任绩效标准框架说明 PACS 在多大程度上促进了对社会责任的认识。从所有四个年级的 D.M.D. 课程的学生那里收集了反思，并在框架的三个类别中进行了主题分析：对课堂和社区的贡献、社区多样性的价值和责任的行使。对反思性定性数据的不断比较分析表明，学生在综合理解社区问题和作为牙科专业有社会责任感的成员的协作角色时，直接或间接地在他们的反思中涉及了这三个类别。需要进行后续研究，以探讨基于社区的牙科教育对学生对服务不足社区的社会责任和专业精神的看法和理解的影响。
