Professional interpretation of the dental medicine: strong professional employment is not a problem
There is a saying: "toothache is not a disease, the pain is killing people." It can be seen how important the teeth are to the health of the human body. However, teeth are only a part of the oral cavity, which is small but rich in content. In the new college entrance examination of Zhejiang in 2017, the admission scores of Sichuan University, Wuhan University, Sun Yat-sen University and Tongji University's stomatology majors all exceeded 650 points. Many colleges and universities oral medicine specialty is 50 to 90 points higher than a section of the line in Zhejiang for admission, and oral medicine has become the hottest specialty of the new college entrance examination admission in Zhejiang. So what exactly is the dental profession? How about the employment situation of the dental profession? What should I pay attention to when applying for the profession?
A professional analysis
What is dentistry?
People who do not understand dentistry will think that dentistry is dentistry, dentist is the doctor who looks at the teeth, in fact, although most of the patients to the stomatology department is to look at the teeth, but the teeth are only a part of the study of dentistry, there is a considerable part of the disease and the teeth have nothing to do with the teeth, such as erythema, white spots, oral ulcers, oral tumors, frontal facial deformity Orthodontics, etc.
Oral medicine is a study of teeth and their surrounding oral and maxillofacial soft and hard tissue occurrence, development, and the etiology of their diseases, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of practical, comprehensive, cross-section of strong clinical medical science. It mainly focuses on the study of oral organs, facial soft tissues, maxillofacial bones, temporomandibular joints, salivary glands and the prevention and treatment of certain diseases in the neck. Stomatology is the application of modern biology, basic medicine, clinical medicine, engineering and other natural science and technology theory and technology, research and prevention of oral and maxillofacial diseases of an independent discipline, is a major branch of modern medicine, at home and abroad is a first-class discipline.
What is stomatology?
Dentistry is a highly specialized medical discipline, the main courses are three main areas: basic medicine, clinical medicine and dentistry. Stomatology students pre-basic courses are very similar to the clinical medicine program, are to learn basic medicine and clinical medicine part of the curriculum, in a good comprehensive foundation, before starting to learn the basic and clinical courses of the dental profession. Institutions that offer dentistry programs generally have a curriculum that includes physics, biology, oral anatomy and physiology, oral histopathology, oral materials, oral internal medicine, oral and maxillofacial surgery, prosthodontics, orthodontics, and so on. Specifically for each institution, according to their specialties, training years are different, the curriculum is different.
Oral Medicine Non-Oral Medicine Technology
Here to remind the candidates note is that there is a difference between the dental medicine and the dental technology profession. First of all, the subject categories are different: the dental medicine program belongs to the class of dentistry, granting medical bachelor's degree. Dental technology belongs to the category of medical technology to grant a bachelor of science degree. Secondly, the employment of different: want to become a dentist, you must pass the oral physician qualification examination, but the dental technology students can not take the physician qualification certificate, can only take the technician certificate, to become a dental technician, in the hospital (especially dental hospitals) or dental materials, instruments, equipment, manufacturing and research and development companies or factories engaged in related technical work.
Second, professional and employment
Employment prospects
In China, the ratio of dentists to the population is 1:40,000, and the internationally recognized appropriate ratio should be 1:2000. At the same time there are 2.5 billion caries to be filled, 600 million malocclusion to be corrected, 1 billion periodontal disease patients to be treated. In Shanghai Stomatological Medical Center, malocclusion to be corrected at least 1 year in line. Obviously, the number of dentists in China is far from meeting the needs of patients.
At the same time, however, should also be seen, China's dental patients in rural areas accounted for a high proportion of the population, and rural areas almost no oral treatment conditions, the vast majority of dental graduates want to stay in the conditions of the big city, so causing dental graduates difficult to employment of false saturation phenomenon. Even in big cities, large hospitals, dentistry on the doctor`s needs than other departments are limited a little more, in addition to their own must have a high degree of education, research capabilities and excellent technology, treatment chairs to a certain extent, also affects the number of oral surgeons. So not every graduate can be employed in a large hospital. But as long as the dental graduates are not too demanding on the work unit and conditions, employment is generally not a problem. In particular, China's local and county hospitals or oral health care institutions, urban community hospitals are very much in need of oral surgeons; oral surgeons can also fight independently to open private clinics. This is more likely to obtain a favorable position in the industry competition, in order to provide medical services to patients at the same time, they can also get a more lucrative return; at the same time a large number of physical examination institutions also need oral surgeons.
Major Employment Directions
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Education's Sunshine College Entrance Examination information platform, the employment rate of the dental profession is between 85% and 90%; the size of the graduating class is about 6,000-7,000 people.
From the employment of graduates in recent years, it can be seen that the employment options for graduates of the stomatology program can also be diversified. Can be oriented to the general hospital stomatology, urban community medical service centers, private dental clinics, rural township health centers, primary dental hospitals, oral health care institutions to engage in clinical medical work; in the beauty institutions engaged in related facial cosmetic, beauty, such as orthodontics, dental porcelain, ultrasonic scaling, cold light whitening of the teeth, etc.; in the relevant medical colleges and universities, scientific research institutes engaged in medical education, scientific research,
Three, the application guide
Dental medicine professional belongs to the class of dentistry, is one of the major categories of medical specialties. In the past few years, no matter whether it is a specialized type of medical school or a comprehensive university, the admission score is relatively high. At present, the national undergraduate stage to open the stomatology specialty of 103 colleges and universities, including the strength of the more powerful institutions are Sichuan University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Wuhan University, the Air Force University of Military Medical Sciences (the Fourth Military Medical University) and so on.
Long academic cycle
At present, China's colleges and universities to open the dental profession of five-year, eight-year, and "5 + 3" system. The five-year stomatology institutions are Peking University Medical Department, Capital Medical University, Sichuan University, etc., five-year students are awarded an academic bachelor's degree after graduation; eight-year stomatology institutions are Peking University, Air Force Medical University (Fourth Military Medical University), etc., after graduation is awarded a doctorate degree of medical specialization; open "5 + 3" system stomatology professional.
In addition to visual acuity requirements, the left hand is limited
Based on the special nature of the doctor's work, medical professionals on the candidates' physical requirements are higher, according to the "general higher education enrollment physical examination work guidance" of the relevant provisions of the mild color vision abnormality (commonly known as color weakness), any one eye corrected to 4.8 lenses degree greater than 800 degrees, one eye Blindness of the other eye corrected to 4.8 lens degree greater than 400 degrees, hearing in both ears within 3 meters, or one ear hearing in 5 meters in the other ear deafness, strabismus, smell retardation, stuttering and other cases are not suitable for medical professionals.
As treatment chairs and most of the medical equipment designed for right-handed use, individual institutions have some restrictions on the "left-handed" commonly known as "left-handed" habit of candidates. For example, the West China Medical College of Sichuan University in the admission rules clearly stipulate that the stomatology, dental technology specialties due to the study, employment of the specificity of the recommended habit of doing things with the left hand (commonly known as left-handed) candidates do not apply for admission. There is also Capital Medical University also clearly stated that the dental medicine program does not admit left-handed candidates. It is recommended that the candidates in the application, to read the "general higher education enrollment physical examination work guidance" and the specific requirements of the college admissions charter.
In the medical profession of the learning process and later engaged in related work more on the human body and animal carcass operation, there will often be some bloody scenes, so there is bloodsickness, needle fainting and weak mental capacity of the candidates in the application should be prepared psychologically.