title: 5.3 Global challenges in research and strategic planning.
abstract: Health sciences research is experiencing dramatic progress. How can dental schools throughout the world best make these research advances relevant for dental students, as well as providing them with the means to assess and utilize the research advances that will occur in the future? This complex question presents a critical challenge to the dental educational community. Research is clearly integral to the mission of dental education. By providing dental students with active learning strategies, dental educators can inculcate the ability for independent scientific thinking and thereby develop reflective as well as technically competent practitioners. However, there is a shortage of well-trained individuals to fill faculty and research positions in certain parts of the world. Global networks for mutual information exchange are imperative to overcome resource limitations in individual institutions, as is dedicated funding for research in the dental educational setting.
authors.affiliation: NIDCR, Bethesda, MD, USA. bbaum@dir.nidcr.nih.gov
authors.forename: Bruce J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Baum
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bickel
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gombos
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Greenspan
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: No-Hee
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Purdell-Lewis
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ranney
authors.forename: Eli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schwarz
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Seymour
authors.forename: Katsumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uoshima
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003479:Curriculum; D018865:Dental Research / Q000193:education*; D003906:Developing Countries; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D005179:Faculty, Dental / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000600:supply & distribution; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012575:Schools, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012586:Science / Q000193:education*; D013850:Thinking; D000078329:Workforce