A SWOT analysis on general dentist training in stomatological colleges
10.3760/cma.j.cn116021-20230601-01743
- VernacularTitle:高等院校口腔医学院培养口腔全科医师的SWOT分析
- Author:
Li NIE
1
;
Ming WANG
1
;
Conghua LI
1
Author Information
1. 重庆医科大学口腔医学院口腔全科教研室，重庆 400016
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
College of stomatology;
General dental practitioner;
SWOT analysis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research
2025;24(2):245-249
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
We employ the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) method to conduct a comprehensive analysis on general dentist training in stomatological colleges. General dentistry possesses internal strengths including a good education environment, a well-established discipline system, and less competitive employment, but also faces internal weaknesses such as a lack of awareness of development and inadequate capacities of teaching staff and teaching bases. We delve into its external opportunities such as a great demand for general dental practitioners at primary institutions and national support policies, and discuss various challenges such as the low recognition and trust of general dentists at the grass-roots level and the weak attractiveness of such jobs. Based on these conclusions, we suggest strengthening discipline construction, improving teaching staff capacity building, perfecting textbooks and practice bases, and closely linking general dental education with the development of local health care, in order to provide a basis for advancing general dental medicine.
