Cheng Feng-Chou, Chen Mu-Hsiung, Hu Chih-Chung, Tang Li-Hua, Liou Yan-De, Tsai Po-Fang, Chiang Chun-Pin
School of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Science Education Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
J Dent Sci. 2023 Jan;18(1):295-303. doi: 10.1016/j.jds.2022.09.016. Epub 2022 Oct 14.
BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: In Taiwan, the formal education for cultivating medical radiation technologists began in 1965. However, there are very few dental radiology curricula in Taiwan's medical radiology schools. We investigated mainly the appearance of dental radiology education for medical radiology students in Taiwan.
We used documentary analysis, a survey of dental radiology education, and secondary data analysis in this study to find the appearance of Taiwan's dental radiology education for medical radiology students.
There were currently ten medical radiology schools. Among them, five offered independent curricula in their subject schedules and another five had dental radiology education included in their general medical radiology curricula. Of the 53 dental radiology teaching hospitals, 21 (39.62%) were medical centers and 25 (47.17%) were regional hospitals, and these large hospitals were concentrated in the northern region of Taiwan. These large dental radiology teaching hospitals offered more training hours of dental radiology internship for medical radiology students and had a higher availability for the medical radiology students.
In Taiwan, the current status of dental radiology curricula in the medical radiology schools is indeed seriously insufficient. A dental radiology education system should be established in the future, including the innovative dental radiology curricula developed for medical radiology students and more dental radiology curricula designed for dental students. This in turn can create new career options for medical radiology students and new practice directions for medical radiation technologists, and then expand their potential involvement in dental radiology.
背景/目的：在台湾，培养医学放射技师的正规教育始于1965年。然而，台湾的医学放射学校中牙科放射学课程非常少。我们主要调查了台湾医学放射专业学生牙科放射学教育的现状。
本研究采用文献分析、牙科放射学教育调查和二手数据分析，以了解台湾医学放射专业学生牙科放射学教育的现状。
目前有十所医学放射学校。其中，五所在其课程表中提供独立课程，另外五所将牙科放射学教育纳入其普通医学放射学课程中。在53家牙科放射学教学医院中，21家（39.62%）是医学中心，25家（47.17%）是区域医院，这些大型医院集中在台湾北部地区。这些大型牙科放射学教学医院为医学放射专业学生提供了更多的牙科放射学实习培训时间，并且对医学放射专业学生的可用性更高。
在台湾，医学放射学校中牙科放射学课程的现状确实严重不足。未来应建立牙科放射学教育体系，包括为医学放射专业学生开发创新的牙科放射学课程，以及为牙科专业学生设计更多的牙科放射学课程。这反过来可以为医学放射专业学生创造新的职业选择，为医学放射技师创造新的实践方向，进而扩大他们在牙科放射学方面的潜在参与度。
