Gerbert B
J Dent Educ. 1986 Oct;50(10):585-93.
Dentistry today faces an environment that clearly requires changes in dental education. Future dentists must be prepared to deal with new patterns of dental disease, revised manpower requirements, and new developments in the nature of dental practice. The dental education system can best adapt to this situation by initiating a process of planned change. A well-developed literature in this area provides both a theoretical framework and a practical approach that the dental education system can follow in its planning process. In this paper, the principles of planned change are interpreted in the context of dental schools' characteristic structure, goals, leadership, and communication mechanisms. The traits of successful change and specific strategies for achieving it are offered as a means for the dental education system to build with confidence a productive and healthy future.
如今，牙科领域面临的环境显然需要牙科教育做出变革。未来的牙医必须做好准备，应对牙科疾病的新模式、人力需求的调整以及牙科诊疗性质的新发展。牙科教育体系可以通过启动有计划的变革进程来最好地适应这种情况。该领域丰富的文献资料为牙科教育体系在规划过程中提供了理论框架和实用方法。本文将在牙科学院的特色结构、目标、领导力和沟通机制的背景下解读有计划变革的原则。成功变革的特点以及实现变革的具体策略被作为一种手段，帮助牙科教育体系满怀信心地构建一个富有成效且健康的未来。
