Building Bridges: Fostering Collaborative Education in Training Dental Informaticians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

 Dental informatics (DI) is an emerging discipline. Although the accreditation agency governing dental education programs asserts the importance of informatics as foundational knowledge, no well-defined DI courses currently exist within the standard predoctoral dental curriculum. There is a nationwide lack of DI academic programs. This training gap is due to a lack of qualified dental informaticians to impart knowledge on DI.

Objective

 This paper aims to introduce a novel conceptual framework for an interdisciplinary DI program in preparing students to become dental informaticians.

Methods

 In 2023, we developed a standalone graduate certificate program in DI at Indiana University (IU) School of Dentistry (IUSD) in collaboration with IU Luddy School of Inf

SUBMITTER: Felix Gomez GG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11882314 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature