The impact of an ethnically diverse, web-based case file in orthodontic education

描述（由申请人提供）： 美国拥有任何国家中最多样化的人口。然而，当代正畸教育并没有反映这种多样性。此外，由于种族群体在整个景观中分布不均匀，正畸培训计划很难为整个国家的患者样本提供经验，因此，他们在未来的实践中可能会遇到多样性。该项目建议利用现代信息技术，以提高正畸学生的接触到的多样性，更好地代表当代美国拟议的研究的目标是评估一个基于网络的数据库的价值去识别的案例研究从一个民族和种族多样化的正畸患者人群。该数据库将是一个可搜索的、基于网络的、虚拟的病例档案，其中包括种族和民族多样的正畸病例，包括治疗顺序X射线图像、口内摄影图像和详细的人口统计和治疗数据，并配有便于快速方便地访问这些材料的工具。这项工作将通过增加学生接触的患者的种族和民族多样性来提高正畸培训经验的价值，从而更好地为他们在21世纪世纪美国的实践做好准备。我们将测试两个具体的假设，关于一个可搜索的，电子数据库的民族和种族的正畸培训和实践的不同的案例研究的影响。这些假设将通过数据库开发和其设计的可用性的迭代测试，医学教育评估技术和结果的传播来解决。除了正畸教育，研究和临床使用，只是一些其他领域，将发现这个数据库有用，包括生物人类学，公共卫生，流行病学和医学生物信息学。 该项目的公共卫生应用有三个方面：1）帮助现在和未来的正畸医生认识到种族差异在正畸患者治疗中的重要性。2)提供一个工具，以促进在正畸学的研究，特别是在有关种族的变化，错牙合，和治疗史的研究。3）提供一个工具，广泛的研究应用，包括公共卫生，颅面发育，法医人类学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The U.S. has the most diverse population of any nation. However, contemporary orthodontic education does not reflect this diversity. Additionally, as racial groups are not equally distributed across the landscape, it is difficult for orthodontic training programs to provide experiences with a sample of patient as diverse as the country as a whole and therefore, with the diversity they are likely to encounter in their future practices. This project proposes to leverage modern information technology to enhance orthodontic students' exposure to diversity that better represents the contemporary U.S. The goal of the proposed research is to assess the value of a web-based database of de-identified case studies from an ethnically and racially diverse orthodontic patient population. The database will be a searchable, web-based, virtual case file of ethnically and racially diverse orthodontic cases that will include treatment-sequenced X-ray images, intra-oral photographic images, and detailed demographic and treatment data, accompanied by tools to facilitate rapid and convenient access to these materials. This work will improve the value of the orthodontic training experience by increasing the variety of racial and ethnic diversity of patients to which students are exposed, thereby better preparing them for practice in 21st century America. We will test two specific hypotheses regarding the impact of a searchable, electronic database of ethnically and racially diverse case studies in orthodontic training and practice. The hypotheses will be addressed though database development and iterative testing of the usability of its design, medical education evaluation techniques, and dissemination of the results. Besides orthodontic education, research, and clinical use, just some of the other fields that will find this database useful include biological anthropology, public health, epidemiology, and medical bioinformatics. The public health applications of this project are three-fold: 1) Helping present and future orthodontists to recognize the importance of ethnic variation in the treatment of orthodontic patients. 2) Providing a tool to facilitate research in orthodontics, especially in research concerning ethnic variation, malocclusion, and treatment histories.3) Providing a tool with wide-ranging research applications, including public health, craniofacial development, and forensic anthropology.