Sung Janet, Gluch Joan I
Dr. Sung is a graduate of the School of Dental Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Gluch is Division Chief and Professor of Clinical Community Oral Health and Associate Dean for Academic Policies, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
J Dent Educ. 2017 Feb;81(2):127-134.
Dental schools need to produce graduates who are adequately prepared to respond to the complex needs and challenges of the increasingly diverse and interconnected world in which they will practice dentistry. To enhance discussions about the coverage of global oral health competencies in dental education, the aims of this study were to assess how global health education is currently incorporated into predoctoral dental training in the U.S. and which global oral health competencies are being covered. Surveys were emailed to all 64 accredited U.S. dental schools during the 2015-16 academic year. Respondents from 52 schools completed the survey (response rate 81%). The results showed that social determinants of oral diseases and conditions, how to identify barriers to use of oral health services, and how to work with patients who have limited dental health literacy were covered in the greatest number of responding schools' curricula. Key areas of global health curricula that were covered rarely included global dental infrastructure, data collection design, and horizontal and vertical programming approaches to health improvement. Despite current dialogue on the addition of global oral health competencies to dental curricula, only 41% of the responding schools were currently planning to expand their global oral health education. Based on these results, the authors conclude that it may be most feasible for dental schools to add recommended global oral health competencies to their curricula by incorporating didactic content into already established courses.
牙科学院需要培养出能够充分做好准备，以应对他们即将在其中从事牙科工作的日益多样化和相互关联的世界所带来的复杂需求和挑战的毕业生。为了加强关于牙科教育中全球口腔健康能力覆盖范围的讨论，本研究的目的是评估全球健康教育目前是如何纳入美国博士前牙科培训的，以及哪些全球口腔健康能力正在被涵盖。在2015 - 16学年期间，向美国所有64所获得认证的牙科学院发送了调查问卷。来自52所学校的受访者完成了调查（回复率81%）。结果显示，口腔疾病和状况的社会决定因素、如何识别使用口腔健康服务的障碍以及如何与口腔健康素养有限的患者合作，在最多的回复学校的课程中有所涵盖。全球健康课程中很少涉及的关键领域包括全球牙科基础设施、数据收集设计以及改善健康的横向和纵向规划方法。尽管目前正在讨论将全球口腔健康能力纳入牙科课程，但只有41%的回复学校目前计划扩大其全球口腔健康教育。基于这些结果，作者得出结论，牙科学院通过将教学内容纳入已有的课程来在其课程中增加推荐的全球口腔健康能力可能是最可行的。
