University Dental School & Hospital/University College Cork, Wilton, Cork, Ireland.
Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, United Kingdom.
J Dent. 2019 Aug;87:7-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jdent.2019.07.011. Epub 2019 Jul 19.
Dental school education continues to evolve at a significant pace. The challenge for those in leadership positions in dental education is to deliver a curriculum which is contemporary, evidence-based, and at the same time meeting the expectations of regulators and the established dental workforce - the latter being professional colleagues, including employers of future graduates. An important change in recent years is the acceptance that dental education itself is no longer a 'start-stop process', beginning at entry to dental school and concluding at graduation. Rather, dental education should be viewed as a continuous and life-long continuum. Perhaps one of the greatest attributes we can develop in our students is the desire and ability to seek to update, refresh and develop their knowledge and skills in the ever-advancing world of dental practice.
牙科学院教育正持续快速发展。对于牙科学院领导层而言，其所面临的挑战是提供紧跟时代步伐、以证据为基础的课程，同时满足监管机构和现有牙科劳动力的期望——后者是专业同事，包括未来毕业生的雇主。近年来的一个重要变化是，人们接受了这样一种观点，即牙科教育本身不再是“一劳永逸的过程”，而是从进入牙科学院开始，一直持续到毕业。相反，牙科教育应该被视为一个持续的、终身的过程。也许我们可以在学生身上培养的最大特质之一，就是渴望并有能力在不断发展的牙科实践世界中寻求更新、刷新和发展他们的知识和技能。
