TY - JOUR
T1 - Recruitment, development, and retention of dental faculty in a changing environment
AU - John, Vanchit
AU - Papageorge, Maria
AU - Jahangiri, Leila
AU - Wheater, Michelle
AU - Cappelli, David
AU - Frazer, Robert
AU - Sohn, Woosung
PY - 2011/1/1
Y1 - 2011/1/1
N2 - The scarcity of full-time clinical faculty members in dental schools across the country is a major crisis confronting dentistry. Dental schools are experiencing critical faculty shortages and are struggling to maintain appropriate faculty to student ratios. The adage of "doing more with less" applies, in many ways, to dental schools and their mission of educating future dentists. Solutions to the problem have included plans to recruit, develop, and mentor faculty members. However, progress has been slow. Dental schools have created incentive programs to help with faculty shortages and develop future educators in dentistry. This requires commitment and resources and will take years before these efforts and their impact can be assessed. Creative solutions need to be developed both nationally and locally to reverse the trend more rapidly.
AB - The scarcity of full-time clinical faculty members in dental schools across the country is a major crisis confronting dentistry. Dental schools are experiencing critical faculty shortages and are struggling to maintain appropriate faculty to student ratios. The adage of "doing more with less" applies, in many ways, to dental schools and their mission of educating future dentists. Solutions to the problem have included plans to recruit, develop, and mentor faculty members. However, progress has been slow. Dental schools have created incentive programs to help with faculty shortages and develop future educators in dentistry. This requires commitment and resources and will take years before these efforts and their impact can be assessed. Creative solutions need to be developed both nationally and locally to reverse the trend more rapidly.
KW - Academic careers
KW - Dental faculty
KW - Faculty development
KW - Faculty recruitment
KW - Faculty retention
KW - Mentoring
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M3 - Article
C2 - 21205732
AN - SCOPUS:79251636780
SN - 0022-0337
VL - 75
SP - 82
EP - 89
JO - Journal of Dental Education
JF - Journal of Dental Education
IS - 1
ER -