title: Training future dental clinicians. An integrated approach to health care.
abstract: The next generation of dental professionals will require an improved understanding of the interplay between oral health and general health. An aging population, a greater proportion of medically complex patients and an evolving health care delivery system all call for changes in the ways dentists are trained. A concerted effort to broaden primary health-care activities in the dental office will greatly improve both oral and general health outcomes. It is proposed that expansion of biomedical training in the predoctoral curriculum, mandated PGY-1 postgraduate training and improved continuing education courses would provide the basis for achieving these goals.
authors.affiliation: Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, USA. pcm2107@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Philip C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Mann
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004497:Education, Dental; D004501:Education, Medical; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D019242:Oral Medicine / Q000193:education*; D012586:Science / Q000193:education