A New Dental Curriculum for Chinese Research Universities.

The current dental curriculum in China was developed from the system in the Soviet Union in the 1950s. This curriculum is outdated and must be reformed to keep pace with the development of modern dental education. The new dental educational system should be customized to China's needs: care for a large population with poor overall oral health, operating within a government-owned, centralized health care delivery system. Chine e research universities have a mission to produce competent dentists who will also be educators and researchers. To efficiently train academic dentists who can al o meet the clinical need of today's Chinese population, a new dental curriculum wa developed at the Institute and Ho pi tal of Dentistry, anjing University Medical School. This curriculum ha four main features: I) a two-year general higher education plu five-year dental education ("2+5") model; 2) improved integration of didactic and practical learning; 3) improved integration of dental education with research training; and 4) improved overall equencing of the entire curriculum. This article de cribe the details ofthi new dental curriculum [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]