title: Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum for Family Medicine. A model for curriculum development by STFM groups.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Family Medicine Residency Program, Middlesex Hospital, Middletown, CT 06457, USA. adouglass@midhosp.org
authors.forename: Alan B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Douglass
authors.forename: Wanda
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gonsalves
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maier
authors.forename: Hugh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Silk
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stevens
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tysinger
authors.forename: A Stevens
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Wrightson
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009909:Oral Health; D016730:Program Development / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States