Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum for Family Medicine. A model for curriculum development by STFM groups.
The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Group on Oral Health released Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum for Family Medicine in October 2005 to address a need for high-quality residency and medical school curricula in an area of documented physician knowledge deficit. This article describes the background, planning, fund-raising, development, dissemination, and impact of the curriculum. Lessons learned, particularly in the areas of long-distance collaboration, fund-raising, and marketing are reviewed with a goal of serving as a model for future curriculum development efforts.
Douglass
Alan B
AB
Family Medicine Residency Program, Middlesex Hospital, Middletown, CT 06457, USA. adouglass@midhosp.org
Gonsalves
Wanda
W
Maier
Russell
R
Silk
Hugh
H
Stevens
Nancy
N
Tysinger
James
J
Wrightson
A Stevens
AS
D003479:Curriculum; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009909:Oral Health; D016730:Program Development / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States