In health science education, interprofessional education (IPE) and collaboration (IPC) support the creation of healthcare teams that provide optimal patient care. Despite the need for increased IPE/IPC, most faculty remain siloed by discipline, offering an opportunity for teaching centers to serve as IPE/IPC hubs. This article explores faculty…

The challenge in dental hygiene education is to develop valid indicators with a reliable questionnaire to establish a qualifying list of dental hygiene program competencies that aligned with the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) standards. The first phase of the study was the creation of a questionnaire and performing a Cohen's Kappa…

Health professions students have limited exposure to each other during their education and training, yet there are many expectations for their interaction in the workplace as part of functioning health-care teams. Interprofessional education is a mechanism to facilitate teamwork and relationships between health-care professionals by encouraging…

From vocational education to neurosurgery residencies, apprenticeship training is characteristic of how people are acculturated to a profession. One of the primary goals of professional education is to develop skillful performance. Expert skill includes an integrated set of perceptual and motor abilities. During practical teaching, instructors…

A survey of 405 dentists found that while the more experienced respondents had had more training in office emergency preparedness, about half of all respondents felt underprepared for medical emergencies. Revisions of regular and continuing dental curricula in addition to those published in 1981 are recommended. (MSE)

The document presents a Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) special report on dental care for the handicapped. The nature and extent of the problem of providing dental services to the handicapped population is examined. The handicapped population is defined and their oral health status reviewed. Factors contributing to the poor oral…

This study attempted to ascertain how incoming dental students initially defined selected aspects of their learning environment and how these definitions changed over a period of a year. Specifically, the study attempted to determine changes in student attitudes toward themselves, their faculty, their classmates, and their occupation. The…

The status of nutrition programs in dental education and practice is reviewed, problems are analyzed, and solutions are offered. Problems include lack of well-defined policy guidelines, confusion over the state of scientific knowledge, and the scope of nutrition counseling. Among conclusions and recommendations are the need to emphasize clinical…

Results of a survey of geriatric dentistry specialists concerning the competencies required of geriatric dentists and the relative importance of those skills in five settings (dental school, general practice residency, prosthodontic specialty programs, geriatric fellowship programs, and continuing education) are reported. (MSE)

Two surveys about the teaching of orofacial pain in the dental curriculum are reported, and the comprehensive course taught at the University of Kentucky is described. The first survey was of 89 Kentucky course alumni. The second was of 57 dental schools concerning the status of their orofacial pain curricula. (MSE)

A study found that dentists (n=164) receiving predoctoral and continuing instruction on the behavioral approach to caring for fearful patients recognized a higher proportion of fearful patients in their practices and were motivated to identify barriers to their care. They also found the costs of treatment to be greater. (MSE)

A total of 84 citations is included in this bibliography. In addition, about one third of the articles have been abstracted; the rest are reviewed but not summarized. In general, the abstracted articles are judged to be the most useful in the conduct of this particular study, which evaluates the current position of minority students in dental…

A CAI tutorial for learning the Applegate-Kennedy (dental) Classification System for Partially Edentulous (toothless) Situations was developed at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry. Evaluative data from three comparison groups of second year students indicated that this is generally a viable instructional alternative to…

A survey of the design, emphases, and content of predoctoral curriculum in orthodontics shows wide variation in the amount and timing of didactic and clinical instruction. (MSE)

Describes a prototype for the delivery of orientation programs in large complex universities. The model applies specific managerial prinicples to the needs present at the University of Southern California. The dental school orientation presented here is one example of how programs were tailored to the department and student population. (Author/BEF)