For meaningful curriculum change to occur in dental schools, faculty must go through a process of new skills development that will prepare them to teach differently and to assess students differently than they have before. Curriculum change and the faculty development process must have the support of the dental school's leadership and become a core value of the school's culture.

Anca Sava1, Gabriela Dumitrescu2, Doina Mihailã3, D. Paduraru1, Gabriela Dimitriu4, Danisia Haba5 University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Gr.T.Popa” Iasi Faculty of Medicine 1. Discipline of Anatomy and Embryology 5. Discipline of General and Dental Radiology Faculty of Dental Medicine Hospital “Prof. Dr. Nicolae Oblu” Iasi 2. Department of Pathology 4. Department of Ophtalmology 3. Hospital “Sfîn...

Terukazu Sanui1*, Takao Fukuda1*, Urara Tanaka1, Kyosuke Toyoda1, Kensuke Yamamichi1, Takaharu Taketomi2, and Fusanori Nishimura1 1Department of Periodontology, Division of Oral Rehabilitation, Faculty of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan 2Dental and Oral Medical Center, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan *Corresponding authors: Terukazu Sanui, Department of Per...

LILIANA POROJAN1, CRISTINA SAVENCU1, SORIN POROJAN2* 1 V. Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Prostheses Technology, Specialization Dental Technology, 9 Revolutiei 1989 Blvd, Timisoara, Romania 2 V. Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral Rehabilitation, Specialization Dental Technology, 9...

1Department of Dental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium 2Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, National University Hospital, Singapore 3Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontology, Dental School, Gent University, Belgium 4Laboratory of Lasers in Dentistry (LELO), Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Univ...

The year 2008 marks the anniversary of the first class enrolled at the University of Manitoba’s faculty of dentistry in 1958. There is no better way to celebrate 50 years of proud traditions and accomplishments than to build on that history and launch an aggressive new campaign. Presently, the faculty enjoys a solid reputation as a premiere educational institution, but there is always room for ...

A revision of the clinical assessment system of the University of Puerto Rico School of Dental Medicine was initiated in 2007, with the goal of achieving a system that would be fully understood and used by both faculty and students to improve student performance throughout the curriculum. The transformation process was organized according to Kotter's Eight-Step Change Model. Some of the initial...

In the midst of changes in the environment of academic dentistry over the past two decades, reform of traditional tenure is one way for dental schools to respond to these changes while maintaining scholarly, evidence-based learning environments. Challenges facing academic dentistry today and in the future include a crisis in workforce capacity, difficulty attracting recent graduates into academ...

The issues of cheating and plagiarism in educational settings have received a large amount of attention in recent years. The purpose of this study was to assess the degree to which academic integrity issues currently exist in the dental schools throughout the United States and Canada. An online survey was developed to gather data pertaining to this topic from two key groups in dental education:...

This article reviews the literature related to the evolution and implementation of academic tenure (AT) in U.S. higher education. It is intended to highlight AT implications for the recruitment, retention, and development of the dental education workforce in the twenty-first century and the need for this workforce to implement change in dental education. The dental education workforce is shrink...