Survey of the Training and Employment Status of Dental Technicians in Korea

한국 치과기공사의 양성(養成) 및 취업실태에 관한 조사연구

In order to ascertain the aspects of the dental technicians training system which require improvement, and also to provide important data for use in setting up dental technicians manpower planning, our country's dental technicians training and employment status has been studied and analyzed. The objects of the survey are 1896896 dental and Social Affairs from 1965 to 1982. The results were as follows; 1. Education organs for dental technicians are education system such as health junior college and service training systems. About 965 dental technicians have come from the service training systems and 931 technicians have come from health junior college in our country. 2. Total number of employment of dental technicians employed in our country are 820, and 292 of them are engaged in Seoul, So unbalanced employment of dental technicians will be troubled in a future. 3. All registrated to government are 1,896 till 1982 and 820 of them engaged are that is, we can suppose about employment of dental technicians in a future, 3,746 dental technicians will registrate to Health and Social Administration an 1992, and 1,482 of them will be able to take their job in Korea.