Abstract
Professions exist to serve the needs of society, communities and, in the case of the dental profession, patients. Academic dental institutions strive to help meet these needs by educating and developing future practitioners, educators, researchers, and citizen leaders who serve the community and shape the changing environment in which they practice and provide care. The American Dental Association Commission on Change and Innovation affirms, “If dental educators are to meet these purposes, change and innovation in dental education must be responsive to evolving societal needs, practice patterns, scientific developments, and economic conditions”(Haden, et al., 2006). Guiding any institution through such authentic reform requires a number of strategies. Lee Bolman and Terrance Deal suggest four organizational constructs, or frames, through which to view a complex organization: Structural, Human Resource, Political and Symbolic (Bolman and Deal, 1997).“Like maps, frames are both windows on a territory and tools for navigation” (Bolman and Deal, 1997). This reflective case study examines a major curricular reform initiative in a North American school of dentistry through Bolman and Deal’s organizational frames.
Highlights
Introduction and PurposeMost in health education have little trouble agreeing upon the importance of ongoing curricular improvement to the education of competent practitioners, capable of meeting the diverse needs of the public, well into the future
Confirmation of this assertion can be found in the comprehensive review of dental education, published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1995, which called for implementation of “an integrated basic and clinical science curriculum that provides clinically relevant education in the basic sciences and scientifically based education in clinical care” (Field MJ, ed.,1995)
Stake offers three forms of case study: the intrinsic case study which focuses on a particular case with no intended interest about other cases or general problem; the instrumental case study aimed at gaining general understanding by studying a particular case and; the collective case study which includes multiple cases rather than a single case
Summary
Most in health education have little trouble agreeing upon the importance of ongoing curricular improvement to the education of competent practitioners, capable of meeting the diverse needs of the public, well into the future. Confirmation of this assertion can be found in the comprehensive review of dental education, published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1995, which called for implementation of “an integrated basic and clinical science curriculum that provides clinically relevant education in the basic sciences and scientifically based education in clinical care” (Field MJ, ed.,1995). Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol 14, No 3, August 2014
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