title: [Current status of dental English education in China].
abstract: The teaching of dental English for undergraduate students plays an important role in dental education. Most dental schools or colleges have set up the course of dental English education in China. However, this course lacks of a unified educational plans, contents and goals based on actual situation of dental students, which does not fully achieve the teaching purpose. This study was aimed to explore the developmental direction of the course of dental English education through comparison among different dental schools or colleges in China, in order to find out the teaching mode of dental English education, and promote the teaching effect and cultivation of international dental talents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology. Shanghai 200011,China. E-mail:doctorsunjian74@aliyun.com.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Jia-Wei
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Zheng
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003479:Curriculum; D004497:Education, Dental; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D012575:Schools, Dental; D013335:Students, Dental; D013663:Teaching