2020 Volume 36 Issue 1 Pages 42-49
Abstract Since 2006, all dentists after becoming licensed are required to receive post-graduate clinical training for more than one year in dental facilities authorized by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Each clinic on Niijima Island, Shikinejima Island, and Toshima Island in the Izu Seven Islands is certified as a dental clinical training facility by the Nihon University School of Dentistry (NUSD). The training of residents at these facilities is one of the general practice residency programs of NUSD for the purpose of regional dental health and dental care according to the needs of the islanders. Residents are instructed by a trainee one on one for a week. It was reported to the Japanese Dental Education Association in 2007 that this course involving remote island training was very useful as part of clinical training.
This paper analyzesds the portfolios of 138 residents who participated in remote island training from 2009 to 2018. The portfolios consisted of experience records of clinical training, treatments, self-assessment checklists, and assessment checklists by the instructor. The experience records were analyzed by text mining software. The results of this study suggested that the remote island training for residents provided an opportunity to understand the role of dentistry in the community and to develop personality as a dentist, thus providing a first step in lifelong training.
