Anatomy for Dental Students

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin E. Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Developmental Anatomy ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Full Color ◽  
Online Resource ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
And Function ◽  
Key Resources

Anatomy for Dental Students, Fourth Edition, demonstrates and explains all the anatomy needed for a modern dentistry undergraduate course. This text covers developmental anatomy, the thorax, the central nervous system, and the head and neck with an emphasis on the practical application of anatomical knowledge. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated in line with contemporary teaching and dental practice. Over 300 new full color diagrams map all the anatomical regions that dental students need to know, while the lively and accesible text guides the reader's learning. Throughout Clinical Application Boxes demonstrate how the form and function of anatomy have consequences for clinical practice. Sidelines boxes contain additional descriptions for key anatomical structures. This text is supported by an Online Resource Centre with multiple choice questions, drag and drop figure exercises, and links to key resources to help readers to consolidate and extend their knowledge of anatomy. Anatomy for Dental Students brings together anatomical structure, function, and their relationship to clinical practice, making it ideal for dental students.

Heartfelt images: learning cardiac science artistically

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Ann Courneya
Keyword(s):  
Dental Students ◽  
Dental Student ◽  
Visual Metaphor ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Process Understanding ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Function

There are limited curricular options for medical students to engage in art-making during their training. Yet, it is known that art-making confers a variety of benefits related to learning. This qualitative study utilises a visual methodology to explore students’ art-making in the context of the cardiovascular sciences. The existence of a multiyear repository of medical/dental student generated, cardiac-inspired art, collected over 6 years, provided the opportunity to explore the nature of the art made. The aim was to categorise the art produced, as well as the depth and breadth of understanding required to produce the art. The data set included a wide variety of titled art (paintings, photographs, sketches, sculptures, collages, poetry and music/dance). Systematic curation of the collection, across all media, yielded three main categories: anatomical renderings, physiology/pathophysiology renderings and kinesthetic creations (music/dance/tactile). Overall (medical and dental) student-generated art suggested a high level of content/process understanding, as illustrated by attention to scientific detail, integration of form and function as well as the sophisticated use of visual metaphor and word play. Dental students preferentially expressed their understanding of anatomy and physiology kinesthetically, creating art that required manual dexterity as well as through choreography and dance. Combining art-making with basic science curricular learning invited the medical and dentistry students to link their understanding to different modes of expression and a non-biomedical way of knowing. Subsequent incorporation of the student-generated cardiac art into lectures exposed the entire class to creative pictorial expressions of anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology.

Composition Primer: An Educator’s Guide to Teaching Foundational Composition Skills for Music Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-195
Author(s):  
Patricia Winter ◽  
James Haines
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function ◽  
Goals And Objectives

Abstract The purpose of this article is to outline foundational techniques and strategies that music therapy educators can use to teach students to compose music for clinical practice. The overarching goals are to highlight the importance of therapeutic design and rational, and the intentional use of musical form and function to address clinical goals and objectives. The techniques described can be implemented in the classroom, with the goal of supporting students to transfer these skills to fieldwork and internship experiences.

Communication Profiles of Two Types of Gesture Using Nonverbal Persons With Severe to Profound Mental Retardation

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. McLean ◽  
Lee K. S. McLean ◽  
Nancy C. Brady ◽  
Rhonda Etter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Severe Mental Retardation ◽  
Intentional Communication ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Profound Mental Retardation ◽  
And Function ◽  
Structured Communication

A structured communication sampling procedure was used to measure the form and function characteristics of intentional communication acts produced by nonverbal adults with severe mental retardation. Four “contact” subjects (who communicated only with contact gestures) and 4 “distal” subjects (who used distal as well as contact gestures) participated in this study. All subjects produced communication acts that were coded as initiations, and all subjects produced protoimperative-type communication acts. However, contact subjects produced no protodeclarative-type communication acts, whereas all distal subjects produced some protodeclaratives. Distal subjects lso produced significantly more repair/recast acts than did contact subjects. Other findings included a tendency for distal subjects to communicate at a higher rate, to initiate more communication acts, and to produce more accompanying wordlike vocalizations than contact subjects. These results are discussed in light of Werner and Kaplan’s (1984) concept of distancing as central to symbolization. Implications for future research and for clinical practice are also discussed.

scholarly journals Clinical Practice Guideline: Improving Nasal Form and Function after Rhinoplasty Executive Summary

2017 ◽  
Vol 156 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa E. Ishii ◽  
Travis T. Tollefson ◽  
Gregory J. Basura ◽  
Richard M. Rosenfeld ◽  
Peter J. Abramson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Practice Guideline ◽  
Practice Guideline ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function

scholarly journals The critical need for advanced training of electronic records use: implications for clinical practice, education, and the advancement of athletic training

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. Lam ◽  
Barton E. Anderson ◽  
Cailee E. Welch Bacon
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Electronic Records ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
And Function ◽  
Effective Use

ABSTRACT Context: The effective use of electronic records (ie, electronic health/medical records) is essential to professional initiatives and the overall advancement of the athletic training profession. However, evidence suggests comprehensive patient care documentation and wide-spread use of electronic records is still limited in athletic training. The lack of formal training and education for clinicians and students are often cited as primary barriers to electronic records use. Other healthcare disciplines have used academic electronic health records (AEHR) systems to address these barriers with promising results. Objectives: To identify common challenges associated with the effective use of electronic records in clinical practice, discuss how an AEHR can address these challenges and encourage more effective use of electronic records, and describe strategies for deploying AEHRs within the athletic training profession. Description: The AEHR is an electronic records system specifically designed for educational use to support simulation learning among all types of learners (eg, practicing clinicians, students). Mimicking the form and function of an EHR, the AEHR offers various educational tasks including patient care documentation projects, critical reviews of standardized patient cases, and assessments of patient care data for quality improvement efforts. Clinical and Research Advantages: Recent evidence suggests the use of an AEHR can improve knowledge and enhance skills. Specifically, AEHR use has been associated with enhanced attitudes toward EHR technology, enhanced informatics competencies, and improved documentation skills. Also, the use of an AEHR has been associated with improved critical thinking and decision-making skills. AEHRs appear to be valuable tools for health professions education and athletic training stands to benefit from AEHR use to better train and upskill clinicians and students alike for clinical practice. Although the implementation of an AEHR will require much time and large-scale coordinated efforts, it will be a worthy investment to address current challenges and advance the athletic training profession.

scholarly journals Reactive Astrocytes: Critical Players in the Development of Chronic Pain

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Tang ◽  
Mercedes Bair ◽  
Giannina Descalzi
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Synaptic Function ◽  
Necrosis Factor Alpha ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Metabolic Coupling ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Factor Alpha ◽  
And Function

Chronic pain is associated with long term plasticity of nociceptive pathways in the central nervous system. Astrocytes can profoundly affect synaptic function and increasing evidence has highlighted how altered astrocyte activity may contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic pain. In response to injury, astrocytes undergo a shift in form and function known as reactive astrogliosis, which affects their release of cytokines and gliotransmitters. These neuromodulatory substances have been implicated in driving the persistent changes in central nociceptive activity. Astrocytes also release lactate which neurons can use to produce energy during synaptic plasticity. Furthermore, recent research has provided insight into lactate's emerging role as a signaling molecule in the central nervous system, which may be involved in directly modulating neuronal and astrocytic activity. In this review, we present evidence for the involvement of astrocyte-derived tumor necrosis factor alpha in pain-associated plasticity, in addition to research suggesting the potential involvement of gliotransmitters D-serine and adenosine-5′-triphosphate. We also discuss work implicating astrocyte-neuron metabolic coupling, and the possible role of lactate, which has been sparsely studied in the context of chronic pain, in supporting pathological changes in central nociceptive activity.

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