Chang Julia Yu-Fong, Cheng Feng-Chou, Liu Tsui-Hua, Lin Tzu-Chiang, Chang Yung-Ta, Chiang Chun-Pin
Graduate Institute of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Department of Dentistry, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
J Dent Sci. 2021 Oct;16(4):1125-1132. doi: 10.1016/j.jds.2021.06.001. Epub 2021 Jun 26.
BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Taiwan is facing the problems of the surplus, the uneven distribution, and the urban-rural gap of dental students and practicing dentists. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists in different regions of Taiwan in 2020.
We collected the numbers of dental freshmen and practicing dentists in different regions of Taiwan in 2020 for evaluation of their regional distributions in Taiwan and their relationship by the regression analysis.
The numbers of dental freshmen and of practicing dentists per 100,000 people in municipalities were higher than those in non-municipalities ( < 0.01 for practicing dentists only). These corresponding numbers in cities with dental schools were significantly higher than those in cities and counties without dental schools, respectively (all -values < 0.05). In addition, the coefficients of correlation between the dentist index and the dental student index were R = 0.7521 ( < 0.05) for municipalities (n = 6), R = 0.6332 ( < 0.001) for non-municipalities (n = 15), R = 0.9334 ( < 0.05) for cities with dental schools (n = 4), R = 0.4925 ( < 0.01) for cities and counties without dental schools (n = 17), and R = 0.5025 ( < 0.001) for nationwide (n = 21).
The dental freshmen and practicing dentists are still more concentrated in municipalities than in non-municipalities and in cities with dental schools than in cities and counties without dental schools in Taiwan in 2020.
背景/目的：台湾正面临牙医学专业学生和执业牙医过剩、分布不均以及城乡差距等问题。本研究的主要目的是评估2020年台湾不同地区牙科新生和执业牙医的分布情况。
我们收集了2020年台湾不同地区牙科新生和执业牙医的数量，通过回归分析评估他们在台湾的地区分布及其关系。
直辖市每10万人中牙科新生和执业牙医的数量高于非直辖市（仅执业牙医，<0.01）。有牙医学院的城市中这些相应的数量分别显著高于没有牙医学院的市县（所有P值<0.05）。此外，直辖市（n = 6）牙医指数与牙科学生指数之间的相关系数R = 0.7521（<0.05），非直辖市（n = 15）为R = 0.6332（<0.001），有牙医学院的城市（n = 4）为R = 0.9334（<0.05），没有牙医学院的市县（n = 17）为R = 0.4925（<0.01），全国范围（n = 21）为R = 0.5025（<0.001）。
2020年台湾牙科新生和执业牙医仍更集中于直辖市而非非直辖市，以及有牙医学院的城市而非没有牙医学院的市县。
