Abstract
Introduction: COVID-19 has harmed the economic, academic, and clinical pursuits of dental educational institutions and dental students. As dental associations, health agencies, and regulatory bodies around the globe announced the need for social distancing and stricter safety measures, some dental schools worldwide have been adapting to accommodate for such changes.Methods: This review attempts to provide a general picture of the early responses of some dental schools worldwide to the COVID-19 crisis and identify some of the regulations that influenced dental schools' initial decisions. An analytical approach was used to assess changes to dental school curriculums in didactic (academic/non-clinical) and clinical education, examinations, administration, and dental school research. The assessment was based on a web-based search of a variety of online global references including research articles, reviews, letters, press releases, and surveys regarding the early effect of covid-19 on dental education at some dental institutions in the U.S, Europe, and Asia from late February to early July of 2020. The review also offered further recommendations to dental school administrators regarding the future of dental education during the early stages of a pandemic.Conclusions: Innovations in technology and blended educational methodologies will continue to influence how certain dental schools around the world adapt to the changes caused by COVID-19 and better prepare dental education institutions for potential future public health disruptions.Clinical significance: Dental schools will need to adapt their education system to improve didactic, preclinical, clinical, administrative, and research components of dental education in response to the changes caused by COVID-19 and future pandemics.
Highlights
COVID-19 has harmed the economic, academic, and clinical pursuits of dental educational institutions and dental students
This review attempts to provide a general picture of the early response of some dental schools worldwide to the COVID-19 pandemic and identify some of the regulations that were influencing their decisions at the time
The assessment was based on a search of a variety of online references including research articles, reviews, letters, press releases, and surveys regarding the immediate impact of covid-19 on dental education at various dental institutions
Summary
COVID-19 has harmed the economic, academic, and clinical pursuits of dental educational institutions and dental students. COVID-19 and Dental Education to patient’s saliva, blood, body fluids, and aerosols results in a potentially high risk of transmission to dental practitioners (4). For this reason, the practice of dentistry has been classified as a very high exposure risk job due to the invasive and aerosolgenerating procedures dentists perform (5, 6). The practice of dentistry has been classified as a very high exposure risk job due to the invasive and aerosolgenerating procedures dentists perform (5, 6) Such high transmission risks have limited the academic and clinical pursuits of some dental schools and dental students worldwide (2, 3, 7–12)
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