Exploration on dental materials course reform in seven-year program for oral medicine

The dental material textbook for seven-year program students could not keep up with present situations, not only in the respect of English teaching requirements, but also in terms of clinical practices, the lack of teachers both for researches in correlated specialized fields and bilingual teaching,the monotonous experiment model, as well as the insufficiency of teacher-student interaction during experiment classes.Thus, work had been accomplished that a discussion about the above problems be carried out and a brand new teaching model of both theoretical and experimental lessons be investigated, then strategies be advanced after the development trend of oral materials was taken into account. Key words: Seven-year program;  Dental material;  Course reform;  Exploring experiment