Department of Applied Dental Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, Southern Illinois University, Alton, IL 62002, USA.
J Dent Educ. 2013 Aug;77(8):1013-21.
As part of the Basic Science Survey Series (BSSS) for Dentistry, members of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Physiology, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics Section surveyed course directors of basic pharmacology courses in North American dental schools. The survey was designed to assess, among other things, faculty affiliation and experience of course directors, teaching methods, general course content and emphasis, extent of interdisciplinary (shared) instruction, and impact of recent curricular changes. Responses were received from forty-nine of sixty-seven (73.1 percent) U.S. and Canadian dental schools. The findings suggest the following: 1) substantial variation exists in instructional hours, faculty affiliation, placement within curriculum, class size, and interdisciplinary nature of pharmacology courses; 2) pharmacology course content emphasis is similar among schools; 3) the number of contact hours in pharmacology has remained stable over the past three decades; 4) recent curricular changes were often directed towards enhancing the integrative and clinically relevant aspects of pharmacology instruction; and 5) a trend toward innovative content delivery, such as use of computer-assisted instruction applications, is evident. Data, derived from this study, may be useful to pharmacology course directors, curriculum committees, and other dental educators with an interest in integrative and interprofessional education.
作为牙科基础科学调查系列（BSSS）的一部分，美国牙科学教育协会（ADEA）生理学、药理学和治疗学分会的成员调查了北美牙科学校基础药理学课程的课程主任。该调查旨在评估课程主任的教师隶属关系和经验、教学方法、一般课程内容和重点、跨学科（共享）教学的程度以及最近课程改革的影响等。收到了来自 67 所美国和加拿大牙科学校中的 49 所（73.1%）的回复。调查结果表明：1）教学时间、教师隶属关系、课程设置、班级规模和药理学课程的跨学科性质存在很大差异；2）药理学课程内容重点在学校之间相似；3）过去三十年，药理学的接触时间保持稳定；4）最近的课程改革通常旨在加强药理学教学的综合和临床相关性方面；5）创新的内容交付方式（如使用计算机辅助教学应用程序）的趋势明显。本研究得出的数据可能对药理学课程主任、课程委员会和其他对综合和跨专业教育感兴趣的牙科教育者有用。
