Cheng Feng-Chou, Liu Tsui-Hua, Chang Julia Yu-Fong, Lin Tzu-Chiang, Tsai Po-Fang, Chang Yung-Ta, Chiang Chun-Pin
School of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Department of Dentistry, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
J Dent Sci. 2021 Mar;16(2):567-579. doi: 10.1016/j.jds.2020.12.006. Epub 2020 Dec 24.
BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: In Taiwan, the average income of a dentist increases after the implementation of national health insurance in 1995. Thus, the domestic departments of dentistry become a popular choice of university departments for high school graduates. The purposes of this study were to evaluate the distribution of students admitted to dental schools of general universities in each city or county in 2020 and to further compare the differences in regional distributions of dental freshmen accepted by three admission ways in 2020.
This study collected the number of dental freshmen of general universities in each city or county in 2020 for further evaluating the differences in regional distributions of dental freshmen accepted by three admission ways in 2020.
The distribution of dental freshmen in 2020 did have a big urban-rural gap. These dental freshmen were more concentrated in municipalities than in non-municipalities in Taiwan. The execution of three admission ways did play a role in balancing the urban-rural gap in the distribution of dental freshmen.
The urban-rural gap of the distribution of dental freshmen was not larger than that of dentists. The increased guaranteed enrollment quota of dental freshmen for the high school graduates in the offshore islands do cause unequal opportunities of admission to dental schools. If these extra-enrolled dentists do not return to their hometowns to practice, this may worsen the surplus of dentists and may fail to improve the uneven distribution of dentists in Taiwan.
背景/目的：在台湾，1995年实施全民健康保险后，牙医的平均收入有所增加。因此，国内牙科系成为高中毕业生选择大学专业时的热门之选。本研究的目的是评估2020年各市县公立大学牙科学院录取学生的分布情况，并进一步比较2020年通过三种录取方式录取的牙科新生在地区分布上的差异。
本研究收集了2020年各市县公立大学牙科新生的数量，以进一步评估2020年通过三种录取方式录取的牙科新生在地区分布上的差异。
2020年牙科新生的分布确实存在较大的城乡差距。在台湾，这些牙科新生更多地集中在直辖市而非非直辖市。三种录取方式的实施确实在平衡牙科新生分布的城乡差距方面发挥了作用。
牙科新生分布的城乡差距并不比牙医的城乡差距大。离岛地区高中毕业生牙科新生保证录取名额的增加确实造成了进入牙科学院机会的不平等。如果这些额外录取的牙医不回乡执业，这可能会加剧牙医过剩的情况，并且可能无法改善台湾牙医分布不均的状况。
