5.3 Global challenges in research and strategic planning

  1. Bruce J. Baum1,†,
  2. John Scott2,‡,
  3. Matthias Bickel3,§,
  4. Giorgio Gombos4,§,
  5. John S. Greenspan5,§,
  6. Wei Guo6,§,
  7. No-Hee Park7,§,
  8. David Purdell-Lewis8,§,
  9. Richard Ranney9,§,
  10. Eli Schwarz10,§,
  11. Greg Seymour11,§,
  12. Katsumi Uoshima12,§

Article first published online: 17 OCT 2002

DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0579.6.s3.24.x

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European Journal of Dental Education

European Journal of Dental Education

Volume 6, Issue Supplement s3, pages 179–184, October 2002

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Baum, B. J., Scott, J., Bickel, M., Gombos, G., Greenspan, J. S., Guo, W., Park, N.-H., Purdell-Lewis, D., Ranney, R., Schwarz, E., Seymour, G. and Uoshima, K. (2002), 5.3 Global challenges in research and strategic planning. European Journal of Dental Education, 6: 179–184. doi: 10.1034/j.1600-0579.6.s3.24.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    NIDCR, Bethesda, MD, USA;

  2. 2

    University of Liverpool, UK;

  3. 3

    University of Bern, Switzerland;

  4. 4

    CLOPD of the Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy;

  5. 5

    University of California San Francisco, CA, USA;

  6. 6

    Shanghai Second Medical University, China;

  7. 7

    University of California Los Angeles, USA;

  8. 8

    Unilever, UK;

  9. 9

    University of Maryland, USA;

  10. 10

    IADR, Washington, DC, USA;

  11. 11

    University of Queensland, Australia;

  12. 12

    Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan

  1. †

    Chairperson.

  2. ‡

    Rapporteur.

  3. §

    Group member.

*Address: Bruce J. Baum GTTB, NIDCR NIH Building 10, Rm 1N113, MSC-1190 Bethesda MD 20892 USA e-mail: bbaum@dir.nidcr.nih.gov

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Keywords:

  • health sciences;
  • lifelong learning;
  • research;
  • scholarship

Health sciences research is experiencing dramatic progress. How can dental schools throughout the world best make these research advances relevant for dental students, as well as providing them with the means to assess and utilize the research advances that will occur in the future? This complex question presents a critical challenge to the dental educational community. Research is clearly integral to the mission of dental education. By providing dental students with active learning strategies, dental educators can inculcate the ability for independent scientific thinking and thereby develop reflective as well as technically competent practitioners. However, there is a shortage of well-trained individuals to fill faculty and research positions in certain parts of the world. Global networks for mutual information exchange are imperative to overcome resource limitations in individual institutions, as is dedicated funding for research in the dental educational setting.

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