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Evaluating the need for alternative didactic learning options in pediatric dental residency training
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Evaluating the need for alternative didactic learning options in pediatric dental residency training

Douglas B Keck, John S Rutkauskas and Rebecca A Clothey
Journal of dental education, v 73(6), pp 706-717
Jun 2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/j.0022-0337.2009.73.6.tb04750.x
PMID: 19491348
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Abstract

Administrative Personnel Attitude of Health Personnel Career Choice Computer-Assisted Instruction Curriculum Education, Dental, Graduate - economics Education, Distance Faculty, Dental Hospitals, Teaching Humans Internet Internship and Residency - economics Interviews as Topic Learning Needs Assessment Pediatric Dentistry - economics Pediatric Dentistry - education Personnel Selection Program Evaluation Salaries and Fringe Benefits - economics Surveys and Questionnaires Teaching - methods Training Support - economics Universities Workload
The need for an alternative means of delivery of a didactic curriculum to pediatric dental residents is described. It is our hope with this project to encourage a much-needed didactic curriculum for programs lacking faculty and to endorse other programs in which academicians exist but cannot cover all the material with which a resident needs to become familiar in the two years of postgraduate residency training. A decrease in faculty number due to retirement, debt burden, or marginal recruitment techniques along with an increase in positions in pediatric dentistry residency programs poses a unique educational dilemma. Using a mixed-method research methodology, we sent a twelve-question survey to 105 pediatric dentistry residency program directors and department chairs, followed by eight telephone interviews. Results from a 55 percent return rate show that the debt burden of most pediatric dental residents is well over $100,000 and that this affects a resident's decision to enter academia, as does the relative lack of positive recruitment techniques and poor faculty remuneration. The survey results affirm the need for improvement in the didactic curriculum of pediatric dentistry residents and show that program directors and department chairs also feel that an alternative delivery method using DVD or online/web-based programs would be welcomed. Despite their extremely heavy workloads, educators are willing to contribute by providing lectures or reading lists in their area of expertise.

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Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
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