Jiménez Navas H, Cova Rey R, Arango A
Educ Med Salud. 1978;12(4):392-409.
The School of Dentistry of Zulia University, Maracaibo, Venezuela, set up "community laboratories" to investigate alternative solutions to Venezuelan oral health problems. These academic-administrative units were used to make trial of different arrangements for the provision of dental care in different community situations. The purposes of the community laboratories were to design, develop, and compare comprehensive dental care systems, delegate functions to auxiliary personnel selected in the communities themselves, use simplified equipment, design techniques for reducing costs while maintaining quality, generate a methodology for community motivation, apply preventive techniques on a mass scale, offer the experience so acquired to the public services and to the profession at large, and supply information on the community essential for the design of curricula. The result has been highly encouraging because of the degree of community participation obtained and the salutary effect on student training and attitudes.
委内瑞拉马拉开波市苏利亚大学牙科学院设立了“社区实验室”，以研究解决委内瑞拉口腔健康问题的替代方案。这些学术管理单位用于在不同社区环境中试验提供牙科护理的不同安排。社区实验室的目的是设计、开发和比较全面的牙科护理系统，将职能委托给在社区内自行挑选的辅助人员，使用简化设备，设计在保持质量的同时降低成本的技术，制定社区激励方法，大规模应用预防技术，将所获得的经验提供给公共服务部门和整个行业，并提供设计课程所需的社区信息。由于获得了社区参与程度以及对学生培训和态度产生的有益影响，结果非常令人鼓舞。
