Abstract: Cultivating and enhancing integrative cognitive competence has long been a key focus and challenge in the training of dental generalists. However, the traditional discipline-specific teaching model in stomatology is increasingly falling short of meeting the educational demands for cultivating dental generalists. Dental trauma education, characterized by their involvement of multiple sub-disciplines, have emerged as effective approaches for training integrative cognitive competence in general dentistry. The study conducted the ″Dental Trauma+″ serial courses for 39 residents who participated in the standardized training of dental general practice in the Department of Stomatology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University from January 2023 to December 2023, including theoretical teaching of dental trauma (1 lecture per week, 3 lectures in total) and case lectures with the theme of ″Dental Trauma+″ (1 lecture per week, 10 lectures in total). The residents' cognitive level of dental trauma diagnosis and treatment ability before and after the training was compared through theoretical test, cases analysis test and questionnaires, and statistical analysis was performed to evaluate the role of the ″Dental Trauma+″ serial courses in improving the integrative cognitive competence of the residents. The independent sample t test and Fisher's exact test were used to statistically analyze the assessment results. After the courses,a total of 33 residents participated in the examination and questionnaire survey. The residents' dental trauma cognitive level scores were significantly increased from (66.41±13.42) points to (80.50±12.24) points (P<0.001). The diagnostic accuracy of dental trauma cases increased from 64.1%(25/39) to 100.0%(33/33), and the difference was statistically significant (Fisher's exact test, P<0.001), and 90.9%(30/33) of the residents believed that these ″Dental Trauma+″ serial courses were very helpful in improving their dental trauma diagnosis and treatment ability and integrative cognitive competence of dental general practice. The ″Dental Trauma+″ serial courses integrate the teaching contents of multiple sub-specialties of stomatology to improve residents' clinical reasoning ability when facing complex conditions, resulting in a positive significance for improving the integrative cognitive competence of dental generalists.

Key words: Tooth injuries, Oral medicine, Dental general residents, Clinical competence