Organizational considerations for an electronic curriculum. Part II: A multimedia approach to dental education in general and to prosthodontics in particular.
BACKGROUND
In using multimedia electronic knowledge-transfer as a tool in dental education, an overriding concern has centered on how to devise an organizational model that will accommodate the vast and diverse arrays of information involved, yet be sufficiently simple to provide students with a rational and consistent means of accessing the information they require.


OBJECTIVE
This article presents a model that adopts the Natural History of Dental Diseases as the organizing principle. This article also encourages a mindset in prosthodontics that focuses on the dynamics of energy-dispersal through the supporting structures, in an attempt to provide learners with a deeper cognitive dimension for problem solving and to facilitate their empowerment as life-long learners.
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Department of Oral Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003479:Curriculum; D004499:Education, Dental, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D019212:Multimedia; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D011476:Prosthodontics / Q000193:education*