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For more information, please contact [email protected]. •• ... •• Pacific's School of Dentistry • Adopts Three-year Curriculum • • By DICK ENGER Associate Director of Public Relations School of Dentistry • The University of the Pacific School of Dentistry has streamlined its curriculum, PACIFIC making it possible for students to become highly qualified dentists in three years • instead of the traditional four . The school is one of the first dental schools in the nation to adopt the shortened REVIEW curriculum. UOP and two other dental • schools-the Medical College of Georgia and the College of Medicine and Dentistry of UNIVERSITY New Jersey-have their entire freshman • OF THE PACIFIC classes on three-year programs this year . The revised curriculum will enable UOP to turn out one-third more graduates MARCH, 1972 per year-"an important factor in view of • the rapidly increasing demands for dental care today," according to Dr. Dale F. Redig, dean of the school. The plan will also ease the financial burden of the student, saving him one year of living expenses and placing him at work earlier. The accelerated training is being ac­ complished by extending the acade~ic year, by deleting redundant areas of In­ struction, and by more efficient presen­ tation of material. "However, the quality of our education is not being sacrificed," the dean pointed out. "We are not radically changing fundamental curriculum con­ tent-we are just tightening it up and UOP'S SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY is located making it more pertinent to today's dental at Sacramento and Webster Streets in San practice.'' Francisco. It is the large rectangular Starting with the current first year building at the bottom of the picture. class, students at UOP will attend classes overlap and redundancy and, in some in­ for four academic quarters each year. stances, topics spread over three or four Dental schools traditionally have operated years have lost their relationship to other on a standard three-quarter academic year. material taught. By integrating these areas Students who satisfactorily complete we hope to correlate the various courses to the school's requirements for graduation in make the overall program more meaningful three years will receive the D.D.S. degree. to the student." ''The revised curriculum, however, does not One of the major changes is that bind us to graduate all students in three students .are r~ce~ving initial. clini~/ ex­ years," Dr. Redig said, "as some may perience m their first year. whic~ wul ~e require a longer period of time to complete integrated with their basic science In­ their training." struction in their second year. "In the past Students at the school no longer will be they were given two years of theory before referred to as freshmen, sophomores, ever seeing a patient, so it was possible for juniors and seniors. There now will be only important details of their science in­ three ~lasses and the students will be struction to be forgotten before they began designated as first, second, or third year actual patient care," Dr. Cagnone said. doctoral students. The school presently has Innovations in methods of presenting a capacity of 400 students with 100 in each of material and more efficient use of lecture, the four classes. By eliminating one class, laboratory, and clinic time will also help to each of the remaining three classes can be shorten the curriculum. The use of video increased by some 33 students. tape, slide-tape packages, pr~grammed In the new program, material instruction, tutoring, team teachmg, small developed historically as separate aspe~ts group instruction, and alternative methods S .TOCKTON, SAN FRANCISCO, of the curriculum is being integrated, which of testing will be encouraged in the spirit of SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA saves time and improves the student's educational experimentation. ability to coordinate his knowledge and "An important side effect of this COSTA RICA • JAPAN • INDIA skill. "In the past the three principal program is that it will prompt the. faculty to components of dental education-pre­ take a critical look at the effectiveness of COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC I RAYMOND COLLEGE / ELBERT COVELL clinical technic, basic sciences, and clinical their teaching and to apply new concepts COLLEGE / CALLISON COLLEGE / CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC / experience-have been isolated," Dr. ~eroy SCHOOL OF EDUCATION I SCHOOL OF PHARMACY I SCHOOL OF where they see weaknesses," Dr. Cagnone ENGINEERING / SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY / McGEORGE SCHOOL Cagnone, assistant dean for academic af­ observed. OF LAW 1 SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES I GRADUATE SCHOOL fairs, pointed out. "There often has been (Continued on next page) • •• Engineer Lockheed Invention . O f the Year Fast Speech Helps Blind Dr. Robert Hey borne, dean Two University of the Pacific professors of the University of the are working with a piece of Lockheed re­ Pacific School of Engineer­ search equipment that they believe can help ing, received the "Engineer the blind "read" faster and also serve as a of the Year" award and valuable resource in speech and hearing plaque recently at the An­ studies. nual San Joaquin Valley Dr. Kenneth Perrin, chairman of the de­ • Engineers Week Banquet. partment of communicative disorders, and The annual award is Dr. Richard Harris, assistant professor of • presented by the San Joaquin electrical engineering, are using the unit Engineers Council to the named Vocom , for voice communication. engineer in the general area The device is on a two-month loan to the of Fresno to Lodi who has University from Lockheed Missiles & Space made the most significant Company in Sunnyvale. The aerospace firm contributions to the developed Vocom as part of its diversifica­ engineering profession and tion program. to his community. "This unit does two basic things," ex­ Participating societies plained Dr. Perrin, "and that is to speed up include the Association of someone's speech to twice its normal rate Public Works Officials, the or slow it down to twice as slow. And the unit American Society of Civil does this without affecting intelligibility, Engineers, the California because the speaker's pitch is not affected." Society of Professional According to Dr. Perrin, this last point Engineers, the Institute of about intelligibility is the key to the unit. Electrical and Electronic The UOP professor noted that even a simple LINDA O'NEAL, a blind student from San Engineers, the Institute of tape recorder can slow down or speed up Mateo, and Dr. Richard Harris of the School Traffic Engineers, the someone's speech-but the results are dis­ of Engineering use the Vocom unit (right) Illuminating Engineers torted and unintelligable. Using the Vocom, with the aid of a conventional tape recorder Society, and the Professional however, the speech is understandable at and earphones. Engineers in California both the advanced and reduced rate. Government. Dr. Perrin uses Vocom to slow down Dr. Heyborne was cited for speech to determine if stroke victims can from a book and have the results recorded his accomplishments in profit more from verbal messages that have on tape at twice the normal speed. By revitalizing the UOP School been slowed. He also is interested in other making these tapes available to the blind, of Engineering and for applications of the Vocom unit in speech they could in effect "read" a book in a much guiding the school to full and hearing research and noted the device shorter time and with the use of considera­ accreditation by the could allow students to listen to lectures in a bly fewer tapes. Engineers' Council for shorter time. "We have already used the Vocom with a Professional Development. Dr. Harris, who is interested in helping few blind students on the UOP campus," Under Dr. Heyborne's the handicapped through electronics, is us­ added Dr. Harris, "and the results are leadership, the school ing Vocom to speed up speech and develop very encouraging." developed a Cooperative spoken books for the blind. He explained Officials from Lockheed visited the Education Program that that people can comprehend speech at a Pacific campus recently to view the unit in alternates work experience rate much greater than the normal spoken operation and discuss its benefits as an edu­ with classroom studies for word, so someone could read into the Vocom cational research instrument. engineering students. Enrollment at the school has More About ... doubled since Dr. Heyborne was named dean three years ago. Dental School Curriculum In receiving the award, the (Continued from page 1) dean also was cited for his To keep pace with the fast changing dental schools in the U.S. that went to three­ work in local, regional and dental profession the school is making year programs to relieve a critical shortage national engineering important shifts in emphasis. There will be of dentists. As a result, P&S graduated two organizations and for his more time devoted to prevention, diagnosis, classes in 1944. numerous visits to local high community dentistry, the use of auxiliaries, According to Dr. Alistair W. McCrone, schools to discuss the group management of the clinic, total academic vice president, the revised engineering profession. patient care, and new developments in tech­ curriculum is in accord with the recent nique and therapeutics.