Dental health educators

Dental education: a leadership challenge for dental educators and practitioners.

By all outward signs, the dental profession is prospering. However, signs of a looming crisis in dental education threaten the future effectiveness of the profession. Transforming dental education through the application of principles espoused by the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (CCI) is essential for securing the future of the profession. To meet the future oral...

Educators Of"health Care Providers

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Health educators--the new puritans.

Kurtz, a journalist and Cosmopolitan columnist, sees Western society's obsession with health and health-related behavior as a kind of religion that is grounded in the worship of self. The "new puritans" of her title are health educators, do-gooders who would "deprive people of the privilege of taking responsibility for themselves." Physicians have been cast by the public as the priests of the...

Mentoring future dental educators through an apprentice teaching experience.

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...

The Need for New Qualified Dental Hygiene Educators