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1. Conclusion As this study aims at seeking a new direction in the curriculum for training the dental technicians in our junior colleges, we first of all gathered and analy3ed the information on the educational systems of the vocational colleges in the foreign countries and their national qualification systems for the dental technicians, along with the present curriculums for the dental technicians course in the various colleges in the advanced countries such as the United States, Canada, West Germany and Japan. After making an analytical comparative study and evaluation of these materials with the help of the questionaire, the advice of the members of the industrial-educational cooperation, of Korea Dental Technicians Associations Association, and the consultation of Korea Faculty Association of Dental Technology, we developed a new curriculum for training of the better dental technicians in our junior vocational colleges. In view of the present vocational education of the dental technicians in our junior colleges, it is very much desirable to develop a new curriculum for the dental technology students in order to give them a proper education in the concerned field. Therefore, in the course of developing this new model curriculum, a careful consideration is given to the selection of teaching subjects, the allocation of class and experiment (including the field training) hour, and the effective transition in guiding students. This means that he or she as a dental technology student should get a proper education which gies a high a high professional knowledge as well as a thorough and good technical skill. 2. Suggestion 1) In order to promote efficiency of education of the dental technicians, the standardization of teaching subjects and their names is required. 2) In order to improve the technical skill of the dental technicians all the necessary machinery and tools are to be fully equipped, so that they can easily make effective adaptation what they learned in colleges to the practical work. 3) In order to strengthen the industrial-educational cooperation system, the practice of the field work should systematically be carried out. 4) According the insearch of the information of the educational system, the course of the dental technicians should be extended from the present two years to over three or four years in order to make the dental technique scientific as well as technic. 5) As a part of the supply and demand of the manpower of the dental technicians they should have an opportunity to be employed in the public health center, in the industry of manufacturing mental materials, and in the various firms of selling the dental materials along with the dental laboratory and the general hospitals. An opportunity for the dental technicians to go to the overseas should be given by the government channels. 6) A reasonable measurement of the supply and demand of the manpower of the dental technicians should be taken by the government and the readjustment of the number of the students in the department of the dental technology of the respective college is very much required.
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