高职生口腔颌面外科临床实践教学总结与探讨

口腔临床实习阶段是口腔医学教育的重要阶段。高等职业教育的口腔医学生(以下简称高职生)与本科教育起点的口腔医学生,在教育背景、专业基础、自身素质等方面都有所不同。本文针对高职生在口腔颌面外科实习的特点,对构建适合专科层次口腔颌面外科教学内容与体系,加强实践前培训、全科医学培训、临床思维能力培养、重点内容专项培训等内容进行了探讨。以期培养适合基层工作的实用性口腔医学人才。     

The Benefit of the Smartphone in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Smartphone Use Among Maxillofacial Surgery Trainees and iPhone Apps for the Maxillofacial Surgeon

The use of smartphones has soared among healthcare professionals in recent years, with estimated figures reporting that the majority of clinicians own and use smartphones in the workplace. Smartphones allow the clinician to carry textbooks in their pocket, write documents on the move and use email and internet to enhance productivity and clinical decision making. These advances in smartphone technology have enabled access to healthcare information for the clinician and transfer of data between team members, giving rise to the phenomenon of telemedicine. With the ability to instantly transfer clinical data to the off-site surgeon, combined with purpose-built medical apps, the smartphone is rapidly becoming an invaluable tool for the modern surgeon. Many studies have linked the benefits of smartphones and apps in other surgical specialities, but no article to date has highlighted the merits and full scope of this technology to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon. We report that 94 % of British maxillofacial surgery trainees own a smartphone, with 61 % owning an iPhone. 89 % of trainees questioned had downloaded medical apps and used them regularly during clinical activities. We discuss the clinical application of the smartphone in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery and review a list of useful and relevant apps for the modern maxillofacial surgeon using the iPhone as an example platform.