van der Hoeven Dharini, Zhu Liang, Busaidy Kamal, Quock Ryan L, Holland J Nathaniel, van der Hoeven Ransome
Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - School of Dentistry, 7500 Cambridge, Houston, TX 77054 USA.
Biostatistics & Epidemiology Research Design Core, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, and Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - McGovern Medical School, Houston, USA.
Med Sci Educ. 2019 Dec 13;30(1):243-252. doi: 10.1007/s40670-019-00884-1. eCollection 2020 Mar.
The integrated curriculum is becoming a popular concept among dental schools. The purpose of this study was to query dental students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - School of Dentistry (UTSD) to elucidate their level of interest in the integrated curriculum, perception of how much integration is currently occurring, and identify challenges to integration. To address this question, dental students at UTSD were invited to participate in a survey. Participants reported their perspectives on integration of sciences. All survey participants agreed that it is beneficial to integrate clinical and basic sciences and that basic science educators were incorporating clinical relevance in their regular teaching. The third and fourth year classes, classes that had been exposed to general as well as all specialty dentistry clinics, agreed that basic sciences are being incorporated into most clinical teaching. Top two barriers to integration identified by the students were lack of crossover knowledge of faculty, and insufficient time to explore connections between basic sciences and clinical sciences because of the volume of information that needs to be covered. In conclusion, student perception at UTSD is that overall basic and clinical sciences are being integrated throughout the curriculum.
综合课程在牙科学院中正成为一个流行的概念。本研究的目的是对休斯顿德克萨斯大学健康科学中心牙科学院（UTSD）的牙科学生进行调查，以阐明他们对综合课程的兴趣程度、对当前综合程度的看法，并确定综合过程中面临的挑战。为解决这个问题，UTSD的牙科学生被邀请参与一项调查。参与者报告了他们对科学整合的看法。所有参与调查的学生都认为将临床科学与基础科学整合是有益的，并且基础科学教育工作者在常规教学中纳入了临床相关性。三、四年级的学生，即那些已经接触过普通牙科诊所和所有专科牙科诊所的学生，一致认为基础科学正在被纳入大多数临床教学中。学生们指出的整合的两大障碍是教师缺乏交叉知识，以及由于需要涵盖的信息量过大，没有足够的时间去探索基础科学与临床科学之间的联系。总之，UTSD学生的看法是，总体而言基础科学和临床科学在整个课程中正在得到整合。
