摘要口腔修复作为美国牙科学会认可的九大口腔专科之一,其专科住院医师培养已经历近70年,相对于刚刚开展口腔住院医师培训的中国,美国口腔修复专科住院医师的培养体制及方法相对比较成熟,值得参考借鉴.口腔修复学专业常被誉为指引协调其他口腔专科、协同治疗复杂口腔疾病的总指挥,对一个国家的口腔医学发展有着重要的作用.本文主要介绍美国口腔修复专科住院医师培养的发展历史、培训项目的初期认证方式、修复专科医师培养目标、培养方法以及后期的维护管理制度,希望能对中国的口腔修复专科教育起到一定的借鉴作用.

abstractsProsthodontics is one of the nine recognized specialties by American Dental Association.The postgraduate prosthodontic program used to train prosthodontic specialists in U S A started about 70 years ago.Compared to China which just launched the dental residency programs,the programs in U S A have more developed and relatively more mature education system.It is worthwhile for China to study and learn the U S A prosthodontic residency education program.Prosthodontics is a specialty to diagnose and treat complex dental problems,and is often considered as the ‘orchestrator’ directing and coordinating all the other dental specialists to manage complex situations.This specialty plays an important role in a nation's oral health system.The present article is aimed to introduce the history of US prosthodontic residency program,initial accreditation,curriculum,education standards and mechanisms of the residency program,and how the program is monitored and managed post initial accreditation,with the hope that this system can serve as a reference for China's developing its own residency program.