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The Case for Change in Dental Education
Author(s) -
Pyle Marsha,
Andrieu Sandra C.,
Chadwick D. Gregory,
Chmar Jacqueline E.,
Cole James R.,
George Mary C.,
Glickman Gerald N.,
Glover Joel F.,
Goldberg Jerold S.,
Haden N. Karl,
Hendricson William D.,
Meyerowitz Cyril,
Neumann Laura,
Tedesco Lisa A.,
Valachovic Richard W.,
Weaver Richard G.,
Winder Ronald L.,
Young Stephen K.,
Kalkwarf Kenneth L.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.2006.70.9.tb04162.x
Subject(s) - dental education , preamble , commission , service (business) , dental care , higher education , debt , medical education , medicine , political science , sociology , dentistry , law , business , engineering , finance , channel (broadcasting) , electrical engineering , marketing
This article introduces a series of white papers developed by the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation (CCI) to explore the case for change in dental education. This preamble to the series argues that there is a compelling need for rethinking the approach to dental education in the United States. Three issues facing dental education are explored: 1) the challenging financial environment of higher education, making dental schools very expensive and tuition‐intensive for universities to operate and producing high debt levels for students that limit access to education and restrict career choices; 2) the profession's apparent loss of vision for taking care of the oral health needs of all components of society and the resultant potential for marginalization of dentistry as a specialized health care service available only to the affluent; and 3) the nature of dental school education itself, which has been described as convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to its students.