The UK's population is ageing and an adequately staffed geriatric medicine workforce is essential for high quality care. We evaluated the current and future geriatric medicine workforce, drawing on data relating to the UK population, current geriatric medicine consultants and trainees, recruitment into the specialty and trainee career progression. Data were derived from various sources, includi...

Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, Nursing Care Division, Juntendo Geriatric Koto Medical Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0076 Japan Health Science Division, ELSEVIER, JAPAN 1-9-15 Higashi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106-0044, Japan Division of Health Care Economics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo113-8549, Japan E-mail: e-mail: [email protected]...

Dental education strives to balance the use of traditional teaching methods with technologically advanced systems to meet the needs of an ever-expanding curriculum. Establishing distance education technologies is an identified goal of dental education. Technologically adept students desire meaningful and efficient distance education instruction. A majority of preclinical instruction is devoted ...

This month’s article by Lam et al. (“Factors Associated with the Satisfaction of Millennial Generation Dental Residents”) and one to be published in the January issue (Itaya et al., “AEGD Programs: Why Now, Why More?”) got me thinking about the number of manuscripts that are submitted to the Journal of Dental Education that concern advanced dental education. A nonscientific scan of the JDE over...

background: above all methods effective learning results from decent training, acquired in the proper environment and encouraging creative methods. computer-assisted training by educational software is considered a fundamental measure to improve medical and dentistry education systems. this study aims to design and assess fixed dental prostheses via 2 multimedia instructional contents at the gu...

This report presents findings from a survey of U.S. dental school deans designed to capture their perceptions regarding the rising cost of dental education and its impact on borrowing by dental students to finance their education. The survey included questions about factors influencing the cost of dental education, concerns about dental student borrowing, and financial awareness resources for s...

An understanding of international dental education systems is critical for the education of foreign-trained dentists in U.S. dental programs. However, there is little information on this topic. This article provides information regarding 1) dental history, 2) dental school system, 3) curriculum/examination at dental school, and 4) dental licensure in India and Japan. There are 185 dental school...

Conventionally, dental models [1] are used to impart hand skill education to dental students; however, this method it is not always effective. Dental patient robots that simulate real human motion have been developed [2, 3]. However, these robots are rarely introduced in education because of their high cost and difficult maintenance. We have been developing HAP-DENT [4], a computerized dental t...

The numbers of older people in the European Union are increasing and, with their associated health needs, there is a requirement for the specialty of Geriatric Medicine to be available throughout Europe. At present, specialists in Geriatric Medicine are not recognised in some of the European Union member countries. It is imperative that training in Geriatric Medicine should take place throughou...