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Report are evident in the recent strategic plan promulgated Accordingly, the Surgeon General's report envisions in May 2009 by the National Institute of Dental and Cranioa biomedical research workforce that could competently facial Research (NIDCR) .2 That plan embraces the central address oral diseases and disorders such as dental caries and goal of bringing the best science to bear on problems in oral, periodontal diseases; oral mucosal infections and conditions dental, and craniofacial health.
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emphasis of research in the nation's dental schools. Figure 6-2 Obviously research scientists cannot be trained in an shows the proportion of NIDCR extramural grant support by environment in which research is not being conducted, and, type of academic institution.
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bitmap Biomedical Sciences Dental/ Clinical Sciences 5,000 4,638 4,519 4,46 8 4,44 5 4,50 0 4,348 4, 28 4 4, 258 4, 215 4, 20 5 4,0 00 3,50 0 Number of Faculty 3,00 0 2,50 0 2,000 1,50 0 933 1,000 851 767 76 6 757 679 663 601 59 8 500 N /A -- 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001- 2002- 2003 - 2004- 2005 - 2006 - 2007 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Academic Year FIGURE 6-3 Biomedical science and dental/clinical science full-time equivalent faculty, 1998-1999 to 2007-2008. 6-3.eps SOURCE: American Dental Education Association, Center for Educational Policy and Resources, 2009.
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FIGURE 6-5 Proportion of NIDCR extramural training and career development support by type of academic institution. SOURCE: NIDCR Strategic Plan, 2009-2013.
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Should demand for dental personnel will be difficult, not only because of a re-purposing education decline in the future, it may be research-oriented of dental education to a more narrow teaching function, but dental schools that are most likely to close. also because of a significant and longstanding shortage of The NIDCR Strategic Plan for 000 recognizes dental school faculty in general.
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programs needs to be the troubling pipeline trend that few NIDCR dental school encouraged as a high educational priority. To the extent that trainees go on to independent research careers: The evidence it is fiscally feasible, dental schools need to enhance stipends suggests that dentists are not as successful as those without for graduate students without, if possible, causing students to lose eligibility for low-interest student loans.
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What is the total number of basic science faculty, the proportion impressive, however, is that in 1969, of the 293 full-time of full-time to part-time faculty, or the share of NIDCR vacant budgeted positions, 110 were in the basic sciences. funding going to dental schools, it does appear that dental By 1984, this number had decreased to 50, and by 2008 education is moving away from the biomedical sciences in it had decreased further to just 18.12 Such a decline could its educational programs.
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Valachovic. "Dental School Vacant Budgeted Faculty Positions 2007-08" Journal of Dental Education, 2009 73: 1415-1422; Chmar, J., R.G.
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demand for future dental school faculty: Trends, challenges, and responses. In 2001, the average age for all dental faculty was Journal of Dental Education 66(9)
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Dental education has responded to this demand shown in Figure 6-12. Clearly, the debt burden of dental by increasing the seats in existing dental schools and by graduates is substantial and offers a strong incentive to seek opening several new dental schools, which, in aggregate, the higher paying clinical practice option rather than a career added up to an overall increase in dental enrollment of more in biomedical research.
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SOURCE: Data adapted from the American Dental Education Association. ps Journal of Dental Education.
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income in a salaried position research careers offers a potentially more effective strategy as an associate in an established dental practice clearly has that has not been tried when eliciting interest in research appeal as a debt-payment strategy in comparison with the careers among dental students: Ordinarily, comparisons are need to forgo immediate income while seeking additional made between only two career choices: dentist (or specialfinancing to build an independent dental practice. This trend ist)
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still meeting student debt obligations) may mean that a sig- Although dental faculty positions can never be expected to nificant subpopulation of students exists in dental schools offer salaries competitive with dentists who are proprietors for whom the option of employment not in a private practice of a business, the difference is not great between research but as a dental academic or researcher could be attractive, and faculty dentists and the growing segment of employed assuming the compensation is about the same.
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2004. Rate of return from a career as dental school faculty.
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degree to enter a field guaranteed to tal Research, the American Dental Education Associaoffer a lower level of compensation does not enter the con tion, and research-intensive dental schools, the National sciousness of most graduates of dental programs. Although Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research must the current situation relative to the research personnel needs increase efforts to achieve closer integration between in the oral health sciences is about the same as described schools of dentistry and the broader research, practice, in the 2005 report, and though a new and disturbing trend and education communities with the goal of generating has emerged that seems to de-emphasize research in dental new and vibrant research pathways and partnerships for schools, the goals of the new NIDCR strategic plan are well students and faculty.
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model without causing students to lose eligibility for low-inter- to dental education -- including full funding for eight or est student loans. In conjoined D.D.S./D.M.D.-Ph.D.
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