scholarly journals A Geriatric Core Curriculum for Undergraduate Dental Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna K. Stuck ◽  
Martin Schimmel
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Real Patient ◽  
Decision Making Capacity ◽  
Future Clinical Practice ◽  
Case Based

Abstract BackgroundIt is well-accepted that graduating dentists require geriatric competencies to ensure proper treatment of their elderly patients. Nevertheless, geriatric competencies in a curriculum for undergraduate dental students are often not adequately addressed. Thus, the purpose is to develop an efficient teaching model covering geriatric competencies in a dedicated geriatric core curriculum instructed by a geriatrician.MethodsTo design and develop a geriatric core curriculum, we selected domains based on clinical relevance for dental practice and specified learning objectives, aligning them to discrete competency levels. We used a case-based approach and developed real patient and/or clinical practice scenarios to elaborate the geriatric domains. In a pilot study, we implemented this geriatric core curriculum. Student satisfaction was evaluated using a feedback survey.ResultsOur geriatric core curriculum was successfully implemented for undergraduate dental students in this pilot study. Detailed learning objectives for each domain aligned to corresponding competency levels are described. Clinical practice scenarios for the case-based approach are matched to corresponding domains. Overall, the majority of students rated the domains of polypharmacy (93%), pain (71%), and decision-making capacity (57%) as highly relevant for their future clinical practice. Nevertheless, we encountered several challenges in this pilot study, namely low attendance and a suboptimal learning setting.ConclusionWe conclude that this pilot geriatric core curriculum proves to be largely feasible and serves as an educational template.

scholarly journals Faculty versus Student Repeatability on Evaluating Translucency of the Anterior Dentition

Prosthesis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-341
Author(s):  
James L. Sheets ◽  
David B. Marx ◽  
Nina Ariani ◽  
Valentim A. R. Barão ◽  
Alvin G. Wee
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Parameter Estimate ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Restorative Dentistry ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Within Subjects

The objective was to compare the repeatability between dental faculty, whose clinical practice was primarily restorative dentistry, and final year dental students in categorizing the inherent translucency of images selected at random using either a 3- or 7-point scale (translucent to opaque). Digital images of anterior dentition were randomly selected based on inherent translucency. Thirty images (five were repeated) were randomized and categorized by 20 dental students and 20 faculty on their inherent translucency. Statistical analysis was performed using an F test for analysis of variance at 95% confidence interval. A covariance parameter estimate (CPE) was accomplished to compare the inter-rater variability of the dental faculty and dental students. Statistically, more variability occurred between Slides (CPE of 0.185 (p = 0.001)) and between Subject and Slide (CPE of 0.122 (p = 0.0002)) than within subjects (CPE of 0.021 (p = 0.083)). Viewing repeat Slides, Students (CPE = 0.16) were more consistent (p < 0.05) than faculty (CPE = 1.8) using the 3- point scale, while the CPE was the same (CPE = 0.669) using 7-point scale. Dental students and faculty were consistent using the 7-point scale to judge repeat slides, while dental students in this limited pilot study were more consistent when viewing a repeat slide using the 3-point scale.

Hybrid Telecoaching for Corporate Speech Training and Potential Applications to Clinical Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-324
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Engineering Teams ◽  
Corporate Strategies ◽  
Corporate Speech ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Future Clinical Practice ◽  
Fortune 100 ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Development Engineering

Purpose The purpose of this article was to describe a model for “hybrid speech telecoaching” developed for a Fortune 100 organization and offer a “thought starter” on how clinicians might think of applying these corporate strategies within future clinical practice. Conclusion The author contends in this article that corporate telecommunications and best practices gleaned from software development engineering teams can lend credibility to e-mail, messaging apps, phone calls, or other emerging technology as viable means of hybrid telepractice delivery models and offer ideas about the future of more scalable speech-language pathology services.

El debriefing, aprendizaje reflexivo en la simulación interprofesional

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (0) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Hugo E. Olvera ◽  
Argimira Vianey Barona Nuñez ◽  
Laura S. Hernández Gutiérrez ◽  
Erick López León
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Complex Activity ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Reaction Phase ◽  
Analysis Phase ◽  
Simulation Scenario ◽  
Basic Standards

In the field of interprofessional simulation, an important element for achieving the stated objectives of the simulation scenario is the debriefing. The debriefing is a complex activity that requires certain skills, experience and knowledge from the facilitator or facilitators, who are known as debriefer/s. Their function is to make the participants reflect on the reasons for their actions, their decisions, and how they acted as a team or individually. Its purpose is the acquisition of a significant learning (achieving the learning objectives) that can subsequently be applied in their daily lives. The interprofessional debriefing styles are varied, but basically its structure integrates: a reaction phase, an analysis phase and an application phase; keeping in mind that the basic standards must be maintained when carrying out a debriefing: time, the construction of a safe learning space, identification, and the closure of knowledge gaps. The advantages of performing an interprofessional debriefing goes beyond the objectives of the simulation, since it favors the acquisition of effective communication skills, teamwork, leadership, the notion of error, etc., which can later be applied in the daily clinical practice.

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.

The Jay Healey Technique: Teaching Law and Ethics to Medical and Dental Students

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-455
Author(s):  
Barbara B. Blechner ◽  
Christie L. Hager ◽  
Nancy R. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Dental Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Law And Ethics ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Connecticut ◽  
Case Based ◽  
Medical And Dental Students

Health law and medical ethics are both integral parts of undergraduate medical curricula. The literature has addressed the importance of teaching law and ethics separately in medical school settings, yet there have been few descriptions of teaching law and ethics together in the same curriculum. A combined program in law and ethics required for first-year medical and dental students was developed and implemented by Professor Joseph (Jay) M. Healey, Jr., at the University of Connecticut Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine from 1975 until his death in 1993. This Article describes the thirty-hour, interactive, case-based course he created. The course, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Medicine and Dental Medicine (LEA), has continued after Jay 's death, and is one of his many legacies to us. LEA consists of fifty-six actual and hypothetical cases written by Jay from which basic legal and ethical principles are extracted by participants and reinforced by instructors.

scholarly journals Improving Neurosurgery education using Social-Media Case-based discussions: A Pilot Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 100103
Author(s):  
Nicola Newall ◽  
Brandon G. Smith ◽  
Oliver Burton ◽  
Aswin Chari ◽  
Angelos G. Kolias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Case Based

Can a spaced repetition software aid dental students? a pilot study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon M. Veremis ◽  
Vidya Ramaswamy ◽  
Vitaliy Popov ◽  
Theodora E. Danciu
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Spaced Repetition
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