Vice Chancellor's Office, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2012 Oct;40 Suppl 2:122-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2012.00731.x.
The aim of this paper is to discuss the training and development needs of those people who will form the next generation working in the field of population oral health.
The paper represents the personal views of the author based upon an analysis of current training programmes in a number of countries and variation in the international working conditions.
The next generation of population oral healthers will need to be versatile in their approach to the oral health problems they encounter. The simple problems may well have been solved or have stopped improving. The future generation will work in a variety of roles: commissioning and designing services, providing and evaluating services, educating or researching. The working environment will also show considerable variation and diversity from entirely private systems through mixed economies to public systems and, of course, no system at all. Current curricula vary but tends to emphasis traditional epidemiological and statistical skills as well as service delivery. There is also some evidence that training opportunities are limited to those with clinical backgrounds. Universities continue to emphasis high quality, high impact and high financial value research as they seek to maximize income and climb international league tables. National research funding bodies are seeking to address major issues such as global warming, food security and international security. Health research appears to have a number of foci: increasingly complex biomedical research, economic and effectiveness research and the complex questions around diseases of poverty and lifestyle. Access to funding will be increasingly competitive.
The next generation will need to access and understand an increasing range of disciplines using a wide range of transferable and political skills as they work across a diverse range of social situations and disease states. A key issue will be the requirement for them to be adaptable and flexible as they work to improve oral health.
本文旨在讨论将构成人口口腔健康领域下一代工作人员的人的培训和发展需求。
本文代表了作者基于对一些国家当前培训计划和国际工作条件变化的分析的个人观点。
下一代人口口腔健康工作者在处理他们遇到的口腔健康问题时需要方法多样。简单的问题很可能已经得到解决或已经停止改善。未来的一代将扮演各种角色：委托和设计服务、提供和评估服务、教育或研究。工作环境也将显示出相当大的变化和多样性，从完全私人系统到混合经济系统再到公共系统，当然也有完全没有系统的情况。目前的课程有所不同，但往往强调传统的流行病学和统计技能以及服务提供。也有证据表明，培训机会仅限于具有临床背景的人。大学继续强调高质量、高影响力和高财务价值的研究，因为他们试图最大限度地增加收入并在国际联赛中攀升。国家研究资助机构正在寻求解决全球变暖、粮食安全和国际安全等重大问题。卫生研究似乎有几个重点：越来越复杂的生物医学研究、经济和效果研究以及围绕贫困和生活方式疾病的复杂问题。获得资金的机会将越来越具有竞争力。
下一代人将需要利用广泛的可转移和政治技能，访问和理解越来越广泛的学科，因为他们在各种不同的社会环境和疾病状态下工作。一个关键问题是要求他们在努力改善口腔健康时具有适应性和灵活性。
