@article{0701d717f3d342bfbb96b6aa80d91f84,
title = "Innovation of dental education during COVID-19 pandemic",
abstract = "Background/purpose: The impact of the pandemic of COVID-19 has a certain influence on various walks of life around the world. Because of the pandemic of this novel coronavirus in terms of COVID-19, the social life global wide has been changed a lot. To keep the social distance between human being to prevent from being infected is the most important strategy for all the countries. Many dental schools have been locked down to minimize the spread out of this coronavirus infection. Close contact between human being are required for all those learning process in traditional dental education. Learning methods should be innovated to keep on the learning process but away from being infected for dental education during pandemic. The purpose of this manuscript is to exchange the information and experience of those dental educators from different countries to prepare for the future demand for dental education during pandemic. Materials and methods: By means of three online symposiums, dental educators from different countries were invited to give presentation and discussion regarding to the information and experience in the innovation of dental education during the pandemic. Results: The results showed that the impact of the pandemic of COVID-19 affects the dental education a lot. Intelligent technology has certain benefit for the learning process of dental education during the pandemic. Conclusion: The impact of the pandemic of COVID-19 affects dental education a lot. The model of dental education should be innovated to suit different situations and novelty intelligent technology should be applied for future dental education.",
keywords = "Coronavirus, Dental education, Lockdown, Online learning, Pandemic",
author = "Chang, {Tsai Yu} and Guang Hong and Corrado Paganelli and Prathip Phantumvanit and Chang, {Wei Jen} and Shieh, {Yi Shing} and Hsu, {Ming Lun}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors wish to thank all of those speakers from different dental schools of different countries, i.e., Prof. Heiko Spallek, University of Sydney, Australia, Prof. Hsing Chi Von Bergmann, University of British Columbia, Canada, Prof. Chun-Hung Chu, The University of Hong Kong, China, Prof. Corrado Paganelli, University of Brescia, Italy, Prof. Yasutaka Yawaka, Hokkaido University, Japan, Prof. Osaka Ken, Tohoku University, Japan, Prof. Sasaki Keiichi, Tohoku University, Japan, Prof. Hyeon-Cheol Henry Kim, Pusan National University, Korea, Dr. Liang Lin Seow, International Medical University, Malaysia, Prof. Ma. Cristina Aurea G. Garcia, Manila Central University, Philippines, Prof. Arturo De Leon, Our Lady of Fatima University, Philippines, Prof. Wei-Jen Chang, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, Prof. Yi-Shing Shieh, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan, Dr. Atiphan Pimkhaokham, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, Prof. Bettina Borisch, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Prof. Raman Bedi, King's College London, UK who have contributed to the online symposiums to present their novel information and knowledge in this study. This research is granted by the Project of “Taiwan Special Smile”, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan . Funding Information: The authors wish to thank all of those speakers from different dental schools of different countries, i.e. Prof. Heiko Spallek, University of Sydney, Australia, Prof. Hsing Chi Von Bergmann, University of British Columbia, Canada, Prof. Chun-Hung Chu, The University of Hong Kong, China, Prof. Corrado Paganelli, University of Brescia, Italy, Prof. Yasutaka Yawaka, Hokkaido University, Japan, Prof. Osaka Ken, Tohoku University, Japan, Prof. Sasaki Keiichi, Tohoku University, Japan, Prof. Hyeon-Cheol Henry Kim, Pusan National University, Korea, Dr. Liang Lin Seow, International Medical University, Malaysia, Prof. Ma. Cristina Aurea G. Garcia, Manila Central University, Philippines, Prof. Arturo De Leon, Our Lady of Fatima University, Philippines, Prof. Wei-Jen Chang, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, Prof. Yi-Shing Shieh, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan, Dr. Atiphan Pimkhaokham, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, Prof. Bettina Borisch, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Prof. Raman Bedi, King's College London, UK who have contributed to the online symposiums to present their novel information and knowledge in this study. This research is granted by the Project of ?Taiwan Special Smile?, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Association for Dental Sciences of the Republic of China Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1016/j.jds.2020.07.011",
language = "English",
volume = "16",
pages = "15--20",
journal = "Journal of Dental Sciences",
issn = "1991-7902",
publisher = "Association for Dental Sciences of the Republic of China",
number = "1",
}