McCauley Laurie K
Dr. McCauley is Dean and William K. and May Anne Najjar Professor of Dentistry, Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, University of Michigan School of Dentistry and Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School.
J Dent Educ. 2017 Sep;81(9):eS91-eS96. doi: 10.21815/JDE.017.039.
As a profession, dentistry is at a point of discernible challenge as well as incredible opportunity in a landscape of evolving changes to health care, higher education, and evidence-based decision making. Respecting the past yet driving forward, a well-mapped future course is critical. Orchestrating this course in a collaborative manner is essential for the visibility, well-being, and potentially the existence of the dental profession. The research performed in dental institutions needs to be contemporary, aligned with biomedical science in general, and united with other disciplines. Dentistry is at risk of attrition in the quality of its research and discovery mission if participation with bioscience colleagues in the collaborative generation of new knowledge is underoptimized. A fundamental opportunity dentistry has is to contribute via its position in academic health centers. Rigorous research as to the impact of interprofessional education and collaborative care on population health outcomes provides significant potential for the dental profession to participate and/or lead such evidence-centered efforts. It is imperative that academic dental institutions are part of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary organizations that move health care into its new day. Strategizing diversity by bringing together people who have different ways of seeing problems to share perspectives, heuristics, interpretations, technologies, and predictive models across disciplines will lead to impactful progress. Academic dental institutions are a natural part of an emphasis on translational research and acceleration of implementing new scientific discoveries. Dentistry needs to remain an essential and integrated component of higher education in the health professions; doing so necessitates deliberate, respectful, and committed change. This article was written as part of the project "Advancing Dental Education in the 21 Century."
作为一门专业，在医疗保健、高等教育以及循证决策不断演变的背景下，牙科正面临着明显的挑战，同时也拥有着绝佳的机遇。既要尊重过去又要向前迈进，规划一条清晰的未来道路至关重要。以协作的方式精心安排这条道路，对于牙科专业的知名度、福祉乃至生存都至关重要。牙科机构开展的研究需要与时俱进，总体上与生物医学科学保持一致，并与其他学科相结合。如果与生物科学领域的同事在合作产生新知识方面的参与度未得到充分优化，那么牙科在其研究和发现使命的质量方面就有受到削弱的风险。牙科所拥有的一个根本机遇是通过其在学术健康中心的地位做出贡献。关于跨专业教育和协作护理对人群健康结果影响的严谨研究，为牙科专业参与和/或引领此类以证据为中心的工作提供了巨大潜力。学术牙科机构必须成为推动医疗保健进入新时代的跨学科和跨领域组织的一部分。通过汇聚具有不同看待问题方式的人，跨学科分享观点、启发法、解释、技术和预测模型，从而制定多样性战略，将带来有影响力的进展。学术牙科机构自然是强调转化研究和加速实施新科学发现的一部分。牙科需要始终作为健康专业高等教育中不可或缺且有机融合的组成部分；要做到这一点，就需要进行深思熟虑、相互尊重且坚定的变革。本文是“推进21世纪牙科教育”项目的一部分。
