The contrastive analysis of the characteristics of dental education in Australia and China / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

The dental education system and the training mode of dentists have a crucial influence on the quality of national dentists.Since 1960s,Australia has been constantly developing its dental education system,and now a mature and efficient mode of cultivating dentists has been formed,that is,bachelor degree of science being the prerequisite,four-year doctorate courses in dental medicine to produce general practice,two-year clinical experience and three-year doctorate courses in clinical dentistry to produce specialists.The dental courses in Australia are mainly composed of four parts:basic dentistry,life science,clinical dentistry model and research.The courses are characterized by a larger proportion for professional courses and an earlier time point for students to step in clinics,the co-culture of clinical and research skills,etc.The assessing method is case report,which means they put greater emphasis on intersection of clinics and lectures.We can learn a lot from their education system.The author compared and analyzed the dental education system of the two countries from background,course length and inclusion criteria,course design and etc,and came up with advice on dental education system of our own,hoping to provide Chinese dental educators with inspiration.