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Current State of Dental Education: Executive Summary
Author(s) -
Formicola Allan J.
Publication year - 2017
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 - 10.21815/jde.017.053
Subject(s) - student debt , dental education , curriculum , state (computer science) , diversity (politics) , section (typography) , debt , medical education , executive summary , higher education , medicine , political science , psychology , family medicine , pedagogy , business , finance , algorithm , computer science , advertising , law
This executive summary for Section 1 of the “Advancing Dental Education in the 21 st Century” project provides a composite picture of information from 12 background articles on the current state of dental education in the United States. The summary includes the following topics: the current status of the dental curriculum, the implications of student debt and dental school finances, the expansion of enrollment, student diversity, pre‐ and postdoctoral education, safety net status of dental school clinics, and trends in faculty.