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

描述(由申请人提供)：这项建议的目标是(1)建立、评估和传播综合计划的结果，该计划将加强科学在UTHSCSA牙科学校各级课程中的作用，以及(2)将当前的科学发现转化为临床实践。该方法利用学生、教师和牙科从业者的合作来准备批判性评估主题(CATS)，并开发一个可搜索的高质量在线图书馆(即，信息性CATS)。我们的CATS计划的一个关键组成部分是让临床、基础和行为科学教师、牙科高级教育住院医生和私人执业牙医参与监督和审查我们牙科学生准备的CAST。这种参与提供了一种机制，向教师、住院医生和执业牙医通报关于高度临床相关性问题的最新科学发现和最佳临床研究。该计划包括一个关于循证实践的正式教师发展计划，该计划将强调CATS的准备和使用。该计划将与学校久负盛名的NIDCR资助的机构研究培训计划(T32)进行协调，旨在提高人们对牙科研究的兴趣，增加学生参加这些计划并进入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复习CAT方面的这种全面的、全校范围的合作将加强与对文献进行批判性评估相关的技能，并促进牙科学校课程和私人牙科实践中更快地整合研究结果。该项目的五个具体目标的全面结果评估计划将决定这一假设是否可行。长期计划是向所有执业牙医提供可搜索的猫科图书馆。未来，CATS图书馆将向公众开放。这些远景计划将有助于解决科学转移和传播问题。

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.