Dental health care providers continue to offer inconsistent and limited tobacco use cessation (TUC) interventions even though smoking-related morbidity and mortality continue to be a substantial health concern. Our purpose was to conduct a comprehensive, three-year (2003-06) TUC curriculum evaluation that included assessment of existing TUC education offered; dental hygiene educators' readiness...

BACKGROUND Successful interaction and communication with patients is as vital for dentists as it is for physicians. Therefore, the aim of this study was the development and evaluation of an interactive, experiential training curriculum with an emphasis on communication for dual degree seekers of medicine and dentistry. METHODS A pre-clinical course with an emphasis in physician/dentist-patien...

Collaboration between dental technicians and other members of the dental care team is essential to achieve optimal outcomes for patients in prosthetic care. Interprofessional education can be effective in improving attitudes, communication, and practices within such teams. This study compared and contrasted the perceptions of role, responsibilities, communication, and teamworking of dental tech...

Advances in all aspects of science and discovery continue to occur at an exponential rate, leading to a wealth of new knowledge and technologies that have the potential to transform dental practice. This "new science" within the areas of cell/ molecular biology, genetics, tissue engineering, nanotechnology, and informatics has been available for several years; however, the assimilation of this ...

JCDA • www.cda-adc.ca/jcda • December 2008/January 2009, Vol. 74, No. 10 • The publication in 1995 of the Institute of Medicine’s report on the state of dental education, Dental Education at the Crossroads, spelled out what dental leaders already knew — that wholesale curriculum changes were needed to modernize the teaching of dentistry. One suggested solution for curriculum renewal was the ado...

This paper describes a minimum curriculum in oral pathology for undergraduate dental education in the United Kingdom prepared by the Teachers Group of The British Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. Curricular development in UK dental schools is overseen by the General Dental Council (GDC), the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) and the European Union. These organisati...

O ptimum dental school student learning integrates biomedical science and clinical dentistry and provides numerous examples of their application and relation to life and dental practice. While the formal curriculum is the nucleus for learning, the largely uncatalogued “hidden” curriculum is the source of important out-of-class learning experiences and provides much of dental education’s real-li...

Although research regarding self-assessment as a curriculum component has been undertaken previously, no data have been reported regarding the perceptions of graduates who were taught self-assessment as a formalized component of accredited dental hygiene programs. Aided by alumni insight and the belief that the dental hygiene curriculum has the potential for improvement, the purpose of this qua...

Filling dental faculty positions isn’t getting any easier. A recent article in the Journal of Dental Education reports that the number of vacant budgeted full-time faculty positions remained almost unchanged from 2001 to 2003 at 280.1 According to that article, retaining dental faculty isn’t getting any easier either. The report notes that of the 921 faculty departures in 2002 to 2003, 46% invo...

In conjunction with its problem-based learning curriculum, Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) developed a shortened preclinical restorative training curriculum. This study compared our curriculum with those in other dental schools and examined student reaction to it. Twenty-nine U.S. dental schools responded to a survey regarding the length of their preclinical course in Operative Dentist...