Journal of dental education
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There are federal programs available for both minority students and faculty. There are also private, state, and foundation funds available for minority students. ⋯ We have to create an environment in which people are judged on their ability. At the same time we have to create an environment that rewards diversity.
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A survey of fifty-one of the fifty-three dental schools in the continental United States provided information about pharmacology curriculum content and time allocation. Most dental schools offer a traditional didactic course in basic pharmacology, with about 50 percent of the medical school-based (MSB) and 75 percent of the dental school-based (DSB) programs providing additional pharmacology material in other basic and clinical courses. ⋯ The DSB and MSB courses provided more time for neuropharmacology and less time for agents related to various organ systems than the M-D courses. There is considerable potential to improve pharmacology instruction by expanding the inclusion of pharmacology in other courses, increasing the number of clinical conferences and discussions, and offering problem-based-learning sessions.
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New information tools enable us to leave behind a world of medical practice in which providers of all sorts have been allowed to operate in the face of avoidable ignorance-ignorance of many relevant details from the medical literature as well as ignorance of details about a given patient. Furthermore, the new tools release providers and patients alike from the "predictable and undesirable internal constraints" of the unaided human mind as it tries to process vast amounts of information in the course of everyday medical care.