Over the past several decades, many orthodontic teaching positions have remained unfilled and, despite many efforts, the situation doesn’t seem to change. Currently, there is a need for approximately 300 dental faculty.1 Many of these positions have been open for years and the shortage has reached crisis proportions. To solve this problem, the implicit and explicit requirements regarding hiring...

During the inaugural year (2006-07) of the Academic Dental Careers Fellowship Program (ADCFP), 110 faculty members at ten different dental schools were interviewed by dental students who were participating as ADCFP fellows in this year-long program designed to introduce them to faculty roles and activities and help them gain an appreciation for the rewards and issues associated with academic li...

Contributors: 1Associate Professor, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; 3Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty o...

Concern over possible shortages of qualified educators in dental schools in the United States and Canada is increasing.1–4 The problem is multifactorial: the major causes are aging of current dental educators causing attrition through death and retirement, resignation of faculty to pursue the more lucrative area of private practice and fewer dentists assuming fullor parttime faculty positions a...

A significant factor in a faculty member's accepting or maintaining an academic appointment is the work environment. Assessing the work environment to identify characteristics that could increase faculty retention and recruitment could be valuable to an educational institution. This study assessed the academic dental work environment to identify positive and negative areas affecting career sati...

BACKGROUND Assessment of job satisfaction of the faculty members and its underlying factors may increase career fulfillment and raise the educational and research productivity, leading to higher quality of dental services at the community level, ultimately improving public oral health status. AIM This study assessed job satisfaction and its influential factors in dental academic members in Te...

In the recent past, we have seen both the dental student applicant and enrollment pools of women in the United States increase. There has been an increase in both women applicants and first-year enrollees from the year 2000. The advancement of women in advanced educational programs and into dental faculty positions has likewise seen a trend of increase. The challenge to dental education is to e...

background: achieving proper clinical outcomes relies on patient cooperation and patient cooperation relies on their satisfaction; thus patient satisfaction is essential for health care improvement; the aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction of patients referred to pediatric department of babol dental school in 2011-2012. methods: in this cross-sectional study, questionnaires contai...

This Editorial is brought to you for free and open access by the Dental Hygiene at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dental Hygiene Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Darby, Michele Leonardi, "Unhealthy Politics of Oral Health" (2003). Dental Hygiene...