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Recommendations for remaining agile in the face of a dental faculty workforce shortage.

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PURPOSE Dental education is facing a faculty workforce shortage. Lack of preparation risks faculty, student, and staff morale and is an impediment to institutional growth and innovation. Administrators and faculty… Click to show full abstract

PURPOSE Dental education is facing a faculty workforce shortage. Lack of preparation risks faculty, student, and staff morale and is an impediment to institutional growth and innovation. Administrators and faculty must consider strategies to better prepare for, and be successful within, a faculty shortage environment. METHODS We review strategies utilized by health professional institutions that have confronted faculty workforce shortages. RESULTS These strategies were grouped into four domains reflecting the organizational units that typically direct and initiate change within dental education institutions: budget and finance, human resources, organizational structure, and curricular structure. Recommendations using a four-pronged approach based on these domains have been developed for remaining agile in the face of a faculty workforce shortage. CONCLUSIONS Local needs assessments and strategic planning are the first steps in highlighting institutional strengths and identifying gaps within each of the domains. Faculty development and retention efforts, as well as increasing curricular efficiencies, are essential for success across all domains.

Keywords: workforce shortage; faculty; faculty workforce; remaining agile

Journal Title: Journal of dental education
Year Published: 2022

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