Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery - Dental Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Hugh Roger

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The new Columbia Dental School philosophy conceives of professional education as a life long continuum in which certain phases are more formalized, structured and concentrated than others. The aim is to produce graduates capable of assuming leadership in the scientific and professional community by academic affiliations either in teaching, research or hospital service ... Two major emphases of the new educational sequence are the prevention of disease and the delivery of dental health care to a larger community than is now able to partake in the services. The Columbia graduate is envisioned to be a leader in his community and in his group practice. He will be an erudite dental scientist and clinical diagnostician, well versed in dental technical concepts, able to perform them competently and integrate the basic sciences with them. 10

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The new first year curriculum consists of the core biomedical courses; everything that we took in one and one half years condensed into one. An overview of dentistry is offered (Introduction to Dentistry I), in which the profession, as seen by the staff, is communicated to the neophyte odontologists. Year two is the core biodental year. Pharmacology is the only biomedical subject offered. Two new courses that resynthesize material formerly given in fractionated form are Development and Function of the Oral System, and Biology of the Oral Tissues. The former interrelates oral histology and embryology; the development, morphology and phylogeny of the dentition and occlusion; and oral soft tissue anatomy. The latter treats the basic medical sciences as related to the dental sciences. Other subjects include Statistics and Epidemiology, Introduction to Human Behavior, Preventive Dentistry and Community Health, and Oral Pathology. 12