The aims of this study were to develop, implement, and evaluate a novel interprofessional standardized patient exercise (ISPE) with oral-systemic and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) components. Dental students and doctor of nursing practice (DNP) students at one U.S. university participated in the simulation, which was primarily designed to test their teamwork skills. In spring ...

The objectives of the study reported in this article were to assess dental student leaders' perceptions of educational efforts concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) topics and the cultural climate concerning LGBT issues in dental schools in the United States and Canada. In addition, the perceptions of student leaders who self-identified as belonging to the LGBT community and...

Dental student performance on examinations has traditionally been estimated by calculating the percentage of correct responses rather than by identifying student misconceptions. Although misconceptions can impede student learning and are refractory to change, they are seldom measured in biomedical courses in dental schools. Our purpose was to determine if scaling student confidence and the clin...

The American Dental Education Association's 2003-04 Survey of Clinic Fees and Revenue obtained data by which to report, by school, clinic revenue information per student. Fifty-one of the fifty-four dental schools that had third- and fourth-year students responded to the survey. The median revenue per third-year student was dollar 9,937. It was dollar 13,602 for fourth-year students. Clinic rev...

To address concerns about the growing shortage of dental educators, the UCLA School of Dentistry initiated an elective course to introduce fourth-year students to issues in academic dentistry and to provide an apprentice teaching experience. Participants in the elective (referred to as student teachers) developed a microcourse entitled "Welcome to Dental Anatomy," presented to incoming first-ye...

AIM To assess and compare, for the first time, the quantity and quality of dental undergraduate teaching in conscious sedation in the dental schools of the UK and Ireland. This was achieved using a prospective, questionnaire-based survey. METHODS Questionnaires were designed to collect information about undergraduate sedation education from teaching staff and final year dental undergraduates ...

Matheus Melo Pithon; Rogério Lacerda dos Santos; Carla D’Agostini Derech; Carlos Nelson Elias; Antônio Carlos de Oliveira Ruellas; Lincoln Issamu Nojima DDS, Specialist in Orthodontics, Dental School, Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil; Student of the Doctor’s Degree Program in Orthodontics, Dental School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. DDS, Student of the Master’s Degree Prog...

One of the most serious challenges that dental educators face today is improving the level of student satisfaction with the curriculum and learning environment. To determine whether a particular teaching method might enhance student satisfaction with the learning process, a learning preference survey linked to sensory modalities was given to students in the four classes of the Temple University...

PURPOSE The main purpose of this study was to investigate student retention strategies and practices implemented in associate degree, entry-level dental hygiene programs. Included are student attrition issues, academic standards, re-entry policies, and clinical remediation strategies. METHODS A survey consisting of forced choice and open-ended questions was mailed to 31 randomly selected asso...

1 BDS, Postgraduate student, Department of Periodontology & Implantology, Sardar Patel Postgraduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 2BDS, Postgraduate student, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Government Dental College, Calicut, Kerala673008, India 3MDS, Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Periodontology & Implantology, ...