Dennis Matthew J, Bennett Jeffrey D, DeLuke Dean M, Evans Erik W, Hudson John W, Nattestad Anders, Ness Gregory M, Yeung Allison
Clinical Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL.
Professor, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN.
J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2017 Feb;75(2):240-244. doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2016.10.010. Epub 2016 Oct 26.
Dental procedures are often performed on patients who present with some level of medical fragility. In many dental schools, the exercise of taking a medical history is all too often a transcription of information to the dental chart, with little emphasis on the presurgical risk assessment and the development of a treatment plan appropriate to the medical status of the dental patient. Changes in dentistry, driven by an increasingly medically complex population of dental patients, combined with treatment advances rooted in the biomedical sciences necessitate the adaptation of our dental education to include a stronger background in systemic health. Many predoctoral educators in the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) have expressed concern about the medical preparedness of our dental students; therefore, the AAOMS and its Committee on Predoctoral Education and Training have provided recommendations for improving the medical curriculum in predoctoral dental education, including a strengthening of training in clinical medicine and biomedical sciences, with specific recommendations for improved training of our dental students and dental faculty.
牙科手术常常是针对存在一定程度身体脆弱性的患者进行的。在许多牙科院校，采集病史往往只是将信息转录到牙科病历上，很少强调术前风险评估以及制定适合牙科患者身体状况的治疗方案。牙科领域的变化，是由越来越多患有复杂疾病的牙科患者群体推动的，再加上源于生物医学科学的治疗进展，这就要求我们的牙科教育进行调整，以纳入更强的全身健康背景知识。美国口腔颌面外科医师协会（AAOMS）的许多博士前教育工作者对牙科学生的医疗准备情况表示担忧；因此，AAOMS及其博士前教育与培训委员会针对改善博士前牙科教育中的医学课程提出了建议，包括加强临床医学和生物医学科学方面的培训，并针对改进牙科学生和牙科教师的培训提出了具体建议。
