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KMID : 0355820180390010073
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Korean Journal of Oral Anatomy
2018 Volume.39 No. 1 p.73 ~ p.82
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The experience of international development cooperation in Laos PD
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Lee Yoo-Mee
Lee Seung-Pyo
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Abstract
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Official development assistance (ODA) is a project in which donating countries aim to enhance the growth of the recipient countries through grant aid and/or credit assistance. International development cooperation includes ODA, and is the actions of the international society that tries to protect basic human rights through abolishing poverty. Through combined effort in improving education, developing countries can expand their capabilities and the fundamental solution to escape from poverty may be found. These kinds of exchanges are being actively performed in medical fields, but dentistry is regrettably lagging in those aspects. Therefore this study aspires to lay the foundations for future international partnerships in dentistry.
From January 5, 2015 to February 4, 2015, acting as the advisor of the Lee Jong-Wook Fellowship, a subsidary project of the KOFIH, diverse educational activities were conducted at the Lao University of Health & Science, Faculty of Dentistry (UHS, FOD). First, instructions and counselling for basic and clinical dentistry education were carried out. Surveys were conducted on 56 subjects before and after the program to analyse the result of the educational program. Interviews and consulting with the professors of UHS, FOD were also performed.
Practical training was conducted in dental anatomy and complete denture. In a post-training survey, students who received the training showed great progress in knowledge of dental anatomy and prosthodontics, self-evaluating themselves and their peers to have grown in their capabilities.
Through this study the effectiveness of practical education conducted by advisors sent from donating countries and the fact that these activities contribute to the motivation and continued interest in helping the universities of the recipient country advance their educational programs were confirmed. Therefore development and cooperation in educational fields of dentistry will be increasingly in need for the progress of the recipient countries.
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KEYWORD
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International development cooperation, ODA, Laos
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