Working collaboratively across schools to promote oral health education through interprofessional education

Autor: Vicki Kowlowitz, Lewis N. Lampiris, Rocio B. Quinonez, Thomas Koonce, Katharine Ciarrocca, Kurt O. Gilliland, Gary L. Beck Dallaghan, Michael J. Gilchrist, Ricardo Padilla
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Dental Education. 84:1108-1116
ISSN: 1930-7837
0022-0337
DOI: 10.1002/jdd.12252
Popis: PURPOSE The Association of American Medical Colleges and American Dental Education Association have identified oral health knowledge, skills, and attitudes shared by both medical and dental professionals. Although oral health was deemed an essential competency for medical practitioners, our state struggled to ensure learners received proper training. This training deficit resulted in conducting a needs assessment and implementing an oral health interprofessional module at our schools. METHODS First-year medical students and clinical faculty were emailed surveys in 2016 to obtain baseline information. A team of faculty and students from the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry reviewed the curriculum to determine where to augment oral health content. An oral health module to teach a basic head, neck, and oral examination to first-year medical students during their patient-centered care small-group sessions was implemented and evaluated. RESULTS Only 13.6% of faculty respondents were aware of national oral health competency recommendations, and
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