Smith T A, Lyon H E, Hardison D, Bogia B
College of Dentistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536-0084, USA.
J Dent Educ. 1995 Mar;59(3):442-7.
The University of Kentucky College of Dentistry has been awarded a $500,000 grant to develop and test a university-based educational program leading to a graduate certificate in Advanced General Dentistry, by the use of "extended campus" and distance learning methods. As an aid in developing this curriculum, dentists in general practice in non-urban Kentucky were asked about their educational needs. A Delphi Technique approach to this assessment was adopted. Forty dentists in general practice in non-urban areas in eastern and southern Kentucky were sent four mailings in which they rated or re-rated 65 topics for inclusion in the curriculum. A total of 59 topics were voted to be essential or desirable for the curriculum, 40 of them by a 2/3 majority. The Delphi Technique was workable for involving students in curriculum design. The curriculum produced by this method has also proven to be attractive to the dentists and their colleagues.
肯塔基大学牙科学院获得了50万美元的拨款，用于开发和测试一个基于大学的教育项目，该项目将通过“扩展校园”和远程学习方法，授予高级普通牙科研究生证书。为了辅助开发这一课程，研究人员询问了肯塔基州非城市地区的普通牙科医生他们的教育需求。评估采用了德尔菲技术方法。研究人员向肯塔基州东部和南部非城市地区的40名普通牙科医生发送了四次邮件，让他们对65个课程主题进行评分或重新评分。共有59个主题被投票认为对课程至关重要或值得纳入，其中40个主题获得了三分之二多数的支持。德尔菲技术在让学生参与课程设计方面是可行的。通过这种方法制定的课程也被证明对牙科医生及其同事具有吸引力。
