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J Dent Educ. 68(8): 823-828 2004
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Critical Issues in Dental Education

A Snapshot of the U.S. Postdoctoral Pediatric Dentistry Faculty Workforce, 2002

Paul S. Casamassimo, D.D.S., M.S.; Robert Feigal, D.D.S., Ph.D.; Steven M. Adair, D.D.S., M.S.; Joel Berg, D.D.S., M.S.; Ray Stewart, D.D.S.

Key words: faculty shortage, dental education, dental faculty, workforce, dental schools, pediatric dentistry

Submitted for publication 03/22/04; accepted 05/04/04

This study characterizes the faculty shortage in U.S. postdoctoral pediatric dentistry (PD) education. The objectives of the study were to determine: 1) the changes in PD faculty numbers and teaching loads between 1995 and 2002 for postdoctoral PD education, 2) current faculty age and training, and 3) distribution of faculty by age. A questionnaire was sent in 2002 to fifty-four programs, of which forty-six responded (85 percent). Dental school and residency mean class sizes increased in the seven-year study period from 82.8 to 91.8 and from 6.0 to 8.5, respectively. Full- and part-time mean faculty positions increased as did vacancies, the latter growing from 15 to 38.9 and changing during the period from 5 to 10.8 percent of available positions. About one-third of programs used general dentists to teach PD, while programs using foreign-trained educators grew from 4 to 13 percent. Twenty-nine percent of full-time and 27 percent of part-time faculty are fifty-five years or older, and young entry-level faculty, age twenty-five to twenty-nine, represent only 2 percent and 5 percent of full- and part-time faculty respectively. Faculty vacancies have increased along with numbers of students and residents, and the largest segment of PD faculty is within a decade of retirement age.




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