[Current challenges and reforms for dental education in the United States of America]
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Ning Wang1, Chun-yu Wang, Yu Sun
1National Medicine Exam Center. Beijing 100097, China. wangning-alice@163.com
Abstract:
American dental education development has been more mature from both the breadth and depth up to date. But there are some challenges and problems needing to be solved. These challenges include :attracting the best students into dental schools; maintaining high academic standards through the continuous training and development of new faculty; and improving dental curriculum, teaching methods, and assessing outcomes, in order to meet present and future public health care needs, and to incorporate new scientific developments into dental practice. This article was aimed to provide a reference for dental education reform in China by delivering the problems faced by the American Dental Education.
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