Curricular trends in North America.

Curricular changes in North America are at present being stimulated by changing disease patterns, changes in the needs of the patients attending dental schools, the desire to broaden educational experience without overloading the curriculum and overstressing the students. Curricula are changing in their content, their format, in the methodology used and in the targets that students are set. The evaluation of curricula and the planning of change are processes that are themselves undergoing revision.