Maya A, Segovia S

Language: Spanish
References: 8
Page: 27-29
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ABSTRACT

The objective of the New Mexican School (NMS) is to transform higher education to become more inclusive, humanistic, and community-oriented. It seeks to form professionals capable of connecting with their environment and transforming the reality they live in. To achieve this transition in dental education, a restructuring of the current academic programs is required. This alignment must closely address the social determinants of health and community needs. One strategy used in the United States is community-based dental education, which allows students to develop clinical skills while addressing real public health problems. However, teaching staff will need to become community educators, mastering public health, cultural competence, and community engagement, without neglecting the clinical and technological competencies of the profession. Higher dental education faces a great challenge in combining or transitioning from evidence-based dentistry to community-based dentistry.

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