Bridging Oral Health Science, Education & Practice: A CATs Initiative

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的目标是(1)建立、评估和传播一个综合项目的结果，该项目将加强科学在UTHSCSA牙科学院各级课程中的作用；(2)将当前的科学发现转化为临床实践。该方法采用学生、教师和牙科医生合作编写批判性评估主题（CATs），并开发可搜索的高质量在线图书馆（即信息丰富的CATs）。我们的CATs计划的一个关键组成部分是临床，基础和行为科学教师，牙科高等教育住院医师和私人执业牙医参与监督和审查由我们的牙科学生准备的CATs。这种参与提供了一种机制，告知教师，住院医生和执业牙医最近的科学发现和对高临床相关性问题的最佳临床研究。该计划包括一个正式的以证据为基础的教师发展计划，该计划将强调CATs的准备和使用。该计划将与学校完善的NIDCR资助的机构研究培训计划（T32）相协调，旨在提高对牙科研究的兴趣，增加学生进入这些计划的流量，并引领口腔科学的学术生涯。我们假设，学生、教师和执业牙医在准备和审查CATs方面的全面、全校范围的合作将加强与文献批判性评估相关的技能，并促进在牙科学校课程和私人牙科实践中更快地整合研究成果。该项目的五个具体目标的综合结果评估计划将确定该假设是否可行。长期计划是使所有执业牙医都可以使用可搜索的cat库。未来，CATs图书馆将向公众开放。这些长期计划将有助于解决科学转移和传播的问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objectives of this proposal are (1) to establish, evaluate and disseminate the results of a comprehensive program that will strengthen the role of science at all levels of the curriculum at the UTHSCSA Dental School and (2) to translate current scientific findings into clinical practice. The approach employs collaboration of students, faculty and dental practitioners in the preparation of Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) and the development of a searchable online library of high quality (i.e., informative CATs). A key component of our CATs initiative is the involvement of clinical, basic and behavioral science faculty, dental advanced education residents and private practice dentists in the supervision and review of CATs prepared by our dental students. This involvement provides a mechanism to inform faculty, residents and practicing dentists of recent scientific discoveries and the best clinical research on issues of high clinical relevance. The program includes a formal faculty development program on evidence-based practice, which will emphasize the preparation and use of CATs. The program will be coordinated with the school's well-established, NIDCR funded, Institutional Research Training Program (T32) with the aim of enhancing interest in dental research and increasing the flow of students into these programs and leading into academic careers in the oral sciences. We hypothesize that this comprehensive, school-wide collaboration among students, faculty and practicing dentists in the preparation and review of CATs will strengthen skills associated with critical appraisal of the literature and foster the more rapid integration of research findings in both the dental school curriculum and private dental practice. A comprehensive outcomes assessment plan of the project's five specific aims will determine if the hypothesis is viable. The long-range plan is to make the searchable CATs Library available to all practicing dentists. In the future, the CATs Library will be open to the public. These long-range plans will help resolve the problem of science transfer and dissemination.