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Research paper thumbnail of Qualitative analysis of pre-licensure student perceptions of ingroup professional stereotypes

Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice, 2021

Background Current interprofessional education quantitative instruments used to assess student st... more Background Current interprofessional education quantitative instruments used to assess student stereotypes of their own and other professions may not be the most effective tool to measure outcomes. Purpose An investigation of current stereotyping terms being used to describe health professions is warranted. Method Students, representing twenty academic programs, reflected on one positive and one negative perception that existed about their future profession. Using an exploratory inductive approach, reviewers read student written reflections and used a codebook to track words and phrases identified by students. Discussion 787 student reflection papers were reviewed. Sixteen themes describing in-group stereotypes were identified. There were eight positive perceptions and eight negative perceptions. Five words and three themes were identified from existing assessment tools. Eight new perception themes not included in existing quantitative tools were found. Conclusions There is a need t...

Research paper thumbnail of Dental Student Assessment Toolbox

Journal of Dental Education, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Interprofessional Education in U.S. and Canadian Dental Schools: An ADEA Team Study Group Report

Journal of Dental Education, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Assessing dental student perceptions after engaging in a longitudinal interprofessional education curriculum: A preliminary study

European Journal of Dental Education, 2020

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES Baseline IPE perceptions for dental students were gathered prior to the implem... more PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES Baseline IPE perceptions for dental students were gathered prior to the implementation of a two-year formalized IPE curriculum at a U.S. institution. The goal was to establish a baseline of student perceptions and, in the future, continue to track student IPE perception data with IPE engagement as one measure of outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to analyze two dental student cohort perceptions of IPE after engaging in a two-year longitudinal curriculum. METHODS First and second year students were required to participate in a two-year IPE curriculum. As a requirement of the curriculum, students were asked to complete a validated IPE assessment, the Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Clinical Education-Revised instrument, version 2 (SPICE-R2). Students completed the SPICE-R2 survey, using a retrospective pretest/posttest design, after engaging in the two-year curriculum. RESULTS Sixty-four students in cohort 2017 and 70 students in cohort 2018 completed the entire SPICE-R2. Statistically significant positive changes (p<0.05) were found in both dental student cohorts after engagement in the 2-year longitudinal IPE curriculum. CONCLUSION(S) A longitudinal IPE curriculum has the potential to impact student IPE perceptions. Additional longitudinal multi-institutional research is needed to determine best practices in delivery and learning.

Research paper thumbnail of Supporting health system transformation through an interprofessional education experience focused on population health

Journal of interprofessional care, Jan 10, 2018

The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of an interprofessional education (IPE) expe... more The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of an interprofessional education (IPE) experience on first year students across all schools of a health sciences center on the topic of pediatric immunizations. The authors conducted a pre-/post-test at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans with 731 first year students from 25 academic programs encompassing all six schools (Allied Health, Dentistry, Graduate Studies, Medicine, Nursing and Public Health). In the four questions related to the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) sub-competencies and the three questions related to professional role regarding immunizations, there was a statistically significant difference in the pre-/post-test survey results (P < 0.0001). Student learning related to the collaboration needed to make a larger impact on patient outcomes was demonstrated through assessment of an open-ended question. IPE experiences can improve first-year students' perceptions of...

Research paper thumbnail of Developing Interprofessional Education at One U.S. Dental School: Establishing a Baseline and Moving Forward

Journal of dental education, 2018

Dental schools across the U.S. are in the process of incorporating interprofessional education (I... more Dental schools across the U.S. are in the process of incorporating interprofessional education (IPE) into their curricula. At Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans (LSUHSC), the process of educating competent students fully prepared to maximize patient outcomes through interprofessional care is under way. The aim of this study was to establish baseline data on three years of LSU dental students' perceptions of IPE prior to and as a new two-year IPE curriculum was being introduced. A survey was conducted of dental students in all four years from 2015 to 2017 using the Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Clinical Education-Revised instrument, version 2 (SPICE-R2). In 2015, 120 students participated in the survey for a response rate of 46%, followed by 160 students in 2016 (62%) and 170 in 2017 (67%). The results showed that the first-year students in 2017 had a higher total SPICE-R2 mean score than the first-year students in 2015 and 2016; the differen...

Research paper thumbnail of Assessing Dental Students’ Competence: Best Practice Recommendations in the Performance Assessment Literature and Investigation of Current Practices in Predoctoral Dental Education

Journal of Dental Education, 2008

In this article, the Task Force on Student Outcomes Assessment of the American Dental Education A... more In this article, the Task Force on Student Outcomes Assessment of the American Dental Education Association&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education describes the current status of student outcomes assessment in U.S. dental education. This review is divided into six sections. The first summarizes the literature on assessment of dental students&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; performance. Section two discusses catalysts, with a focus on problem-based learning, for development of new assessment methods, while the third section presents several resources and guides that can be used to inform selection of assessment techniques for various domains of competence. The fourth section describes the methodology and results of a 2008 survey of current assessment practices in U.S. dental schools. In the fifth section, findings from this survey are discussed within the context of competency-based education, the educational model for the predoctoral curriculum endorsed by the American Dental Education Association and prescribed by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. The article concludes with a summary of assessments recommended as optimal strategies to measure three components of professional competence based on the triangulation model. The survey of assessment practices in predoctoral education was completed by 931 course directors, representing 45 percent of course directors nationwide, from fifty-three of the fifty-six U.S. dental schools. Survey findings indicate that five traditional mainstays of student performance evaluation-multiple-choice testing, lab practicals, daily grades, clinical competency exams, and procedural requirements-still comprise the primary assessment tools in dental education. The survey revealed that a group of newer assessment techniques, although frequently identified as best practices in the literature and commonly used in other areas of health professions education, are rarely employed in predoctoral dental education.

Research paper thumbnail of Using the IDEA framework in an interprofessional didactic elective course to facilitate positive changes in the roles and responsibility competency

Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of The Influence of Prices on Within-Year Persistence by Traditional College-Age Students In Four-Year Colleges

Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of A manpower survey of dental assistants in the Greater New Orleans area

Research paper thumbnail of Class attitudes of dental hygiene students toward their education

Research paper thumbnail of The influence of background : graduate experience, aspirations, expected earnings, and financial commitment on within-year persistence of students enrolled in graduate programs : a dissertation /

Research paper thumbnail of ADEA President-Elect's Address: The Next Right Thing

Journal of dental education

Research paper thumbnail of Bacterial biofilm: A source of dental air water syringes contamination

Clinical preventive dentistry

This study examined the bacteriology of dental air-water syringes, and found that the water deliv... more This study examined the bacteriology of dental air-water syringes, and found that the water delivered by these syringes can be persistently contaminated with bacteria. Flushing of the water line reduced but did not eliminate this contamination. Even after six minutes' flushing, some water samples still contained more than 10(4) viable bacterial cells per milliliter, although coliform counts were less than two per 100 milliliters as measured by a Most Probable Number assay. Sterilization of the tip or the entire syringe did not eliminate this contamination. Scanning electron microscopy revealed bacterial biofilms on the inner wall of the plastic tubing supplying water to the air-water syringe, but not on the air line or on new, unused tubing. Such biofilms probably can be found in any tubing which supplies water to components of dental units. The inoculum for these biofilms comes from ubiquitous environmental aquatic bacteria, some of which can cause disease in compromised patien...

Research paper thumbnail of The case for change in dental education

Journal of dental education

This article introduces a series of white papers developed by the ADEA Commission on Change and I... more This article introduces a series of white papers developed by the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation (CCI) to explore the case for change in dental education. This preamble to the series argues that there is a compelling need for rethinking the approach to dental education in the United States. Three issues facing dental education are explored: 1) the challenging financial environment of higher education, making dental schools very expensive and tuition-intensive for universities to operate and producing high debt levels for students that limit access to education and restrict career choices; 2) the profession's apparent loss of vision for taking care of the oral health needs of all components of society and the resultant potential for marginalization of dentistry as a specialized health care service available only to the affluent; and 3) the nature of dental school education itself, which has been described as convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to its s...

Research paper thumbnail of The dental education environment

Journal of dental education

The second in a series of perspectives from the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Denta... more The second in a series of perspectives from the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (CCI), this article presents the CCI's view of the dental education environment necessary for effective change. The article states that the CCI's purpose is related to leading and building consensus in the dental community to foster a continuous process of innovative change in the education of general dentists. Principles proposed by CCI to shape the dental education environment are described; these are critical thinking, lifelong learning, humanistic environment, scientific discovery and integration of knowledge, evidence-based oral health care, assessment, faculty development, and the health care team. The article also describes influences external to the academic dental institutions that are important for change and argues that meaningful and long-lasting change must be systemic in nature. The CCI is ADEA's primary means to engage all stakeholders for the purpo...

Research paper thumbnail of ADEA President's Address

Journal of dental education, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of The case for change in dental education

Journal of dental education, 2006

This article introduces a series of white papers developed by the ADEA Commission on Change and I... more This article introduces a series of white papers developed by the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation (CCI) to explore the case for change in dental education. This preamble to the series argues that there is a compelling need for rethinking the approach to dental education in the United States. Three issues facing dental education are explored: 1) the challenging financial environment of higher education, making dental schools very expensive and tuition-intensive for universities to operate and producing high debt levels for students that limit access to education and restrict career choices; 2) the profession's apparent loss of vision for taking care of the oral health needs of all components of society and the resultant potential for marginalization of dentistry as a specialized health care service available only to the affluent; and 3) the nature of dental school education itself, which has been described as convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to its s...

Research paper thumbnail of The dental education environment

Journal of dental education, 2006

The second in a series of perspectives from the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Denta... more The second in a series of perspectives from the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (CCI), this article presents the CCI's view of the dental education environment necessary for effective change. The article states that the CCI's purpose is related to leading and building consensus in the dental community to foster a continuous process of innovative change in the education of general dentists. Principles proposed by CCI to shape the dental education environment are described; these are critical thinking, lifelong learning, humanistic environment, scientific discovery and integration of knowledge, evidence-based oral health care, assessment, faculty development, and the health care team. The article also describes influences external to the academic dental institutions that are important for change and argues that meaningful and long-lasting change must be systemic in nature. The CCI is ADEA's primary means to engage all stakeholders for the purpo...

Research paper thumbnail of Does faculty development enhance teaching effectiveness?

Journal of dental education, 2007

Academic dentists and members of the practice community have been hearing, for more than a decade... more Academic dentists and members of the practice community have been hearing, for more than a decade, that our educational system is in trouble and that the profession has lost its vision and may be wavering in the achievement of its goals. A core of consistently recommended reforms has framed the discussion of future directions for dental education, but as yet, most schools report little movement toward implementation of these reforms in spite of persistent advocacy. Provision of faculty development related to teaching and assessment strategies is widely perceived to be the essential ingredient in efforts to introduce new curricular approaches and modify the educational environment in academic dentistry. Analyses of the outcomes of efforts to revise health professions curricula have identified the availability and effectiveness of faculty development as a predictor of the success or failure of reform initiatives. This article will address faculty development for purposes of enhancing ...

Research paper thumbnail of Qualitative analysis of pre-licensure student perceptions of ingroup professional stereotypes

Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice, 2021

Background Current interprofessional education quantitative instruments used to assess student st... more Background Current interprofessional education quantitative instruments used to assess student stereotypes of their own and other professions may not be the most effective tool to measure outcomes. Purpose An investigation of current stereotyping terms being used to describe health professions is warranted. Method Students, representing twenty academic programs, reflected on one positive and one negative perception that existed about their future profession. Using an exploratory inductive approach, reviewers read student written reflections and used a codebook to track words and phrases identified by students. Discussion 787 student reflection papers were reviewed. Sixteen themes describing in-group stereotypes were identified. There were eight positive perceptions and eight negative perceptions. Five words and three themes were identified from existing assessment tools. Eight new perception themes not included in existing quantitative tools were found. Conclusions There is a need t...

Research paper thumbnail of Dental Student Assessment Toolbox

Journal of Dental Education, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Interprofessional Education in U.S. and Canadian Dental Schools: An ADEA Team Study Group Report

Journal of Dental Education, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Assessing dental student perceptions after engaging in a longitudinal interprofessional education curriculum: A preliminary study

European Journal of Dental Education, 2020

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES Baseline IPE perceptions for dental students were gathered prior to the implem... more PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES Baseline IPE perceptions for dental students were gathered prior to the implementation of a two-year formalized IPE curriculum at a U.S. institution. The goal was to establish a baseline of student perceptions and, in the future, continue to track student IPE perception data with IPE engagement as one measure of outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to analyze two dental student cohort perceptions of IPE after engaging in a two-year longitudinal curriculum. METHODS First and second year students were required to participate in a two-year IPE curriculum. As a requirement of the curriculum, students were asked to complete a validated IPE assessment, the Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Clinical Education-Revised instrument, version 2 (SPICE-R2). Students completed the SPICE-R2 survey, using a retrospective pretest/posttest design, after engaging in the two-year curriculum. RESULTS Sixty-four students in cohort 2017 and 70 students in cohort 2018 completed the entire SPICE-R2. Statistically significant positive changes (p<0.05) were found in both dental student cohorts after engagement in the 2-year longitudinal IPE curriculum. CONCLUSION(S) A longitudinal IPE curriculum has the potential to impact student IPE perceptions. Additional longitudinal multi-institutional research is needed to determine best practices in delivery and learning.

Research paper thumbnail of Supporting health system transformation through an interprofessional education experience focused on population health

Journal of interprofessional care, Jan 10, 2018

The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of an interprofessional education (IPE) expe... more The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of an interprofessional education (IPE) experience on first year students across all schools of a health sciences center on the topic of pediatric immunizations. The authors conducted a pre-/post-test at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans with 731 first year students from 25 academic programs encompassing all six schools (Allied Health, Dentistry, Graduate Studies, Medicine, Nursing and Public Health). In the four questions related to the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) sub-competencies and the three questions related to professional role regarding immunizations, there was a statistically significant difference in the pre-/post-test survey results (P < 0.0001). Student learning related to the collaboration needed to make a larger impact on patient outcomes was demonstrated through assessment of an open-ended question. IPE experiences can improve first-year students' perceptions of...

Research paper thumbnail of Developing Interprofessional Education at One U.S. Dental School: Establishing a Baseline and Moving Forward

Journal of dental education, 2018

Dental schools across the U.S. are in the process of incorporating interprofessional education (I... more Dental schools across the U.S. are in the process of incorporating interprofessional education (IPE) into their curricula. At Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans (LSUHSC), the process of educating competent students fully prepared to maximize patient outcomes through interprofessional care is under way. The aim of this study was to establish baseline data on three years of LSU dental students' perceptions of IPE prior to and as a new two-year IPE curriculum was being introduced. A survey was conducted of dental students in all four years from 2015 to 2017 using the Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Clinical Education-Revised instrument, version 2 (SPICE-R2). In 2015, 120 students participated in the survey for a response rate of 46%, followed by 160 students in 2016 (62%) and 170 in 2017 (67%). The results showed that the first-year students in 2017 had a higher total SPICE-R2 mean score than the first-year students in 2015 and 2016; the differen...

Research paper thumbnail of Assessing Dental Students’ Competence: Best Practice Recommendations in the Performance Assessment Literature and Investigation of Current Practices in Predoctoral Dental Education

Journal of Dental Education, 2008

In this article, the Task Force on Student Outcomes Assessment of the American Dental Education A... more In this article, the Task Force on Student Outcomes Assessment of the American Dental Education Association&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education describes the current status of student outcomes assessment in U.S. dental education. This review is divided into six sections. The first summarizes the literature on assessment of dental students&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; performance. Section two discusses catalysts, with a focus on problem-based learning, for development of new assessment methods, while the third section presents several resources and guides that can be used to inform selection of assessment techniques for various domains of competence. The fourth section describes the methodology and results of a 2008 survey of current assessment practices in U.S. dental schools. In the fifth section, findings from this survey are discussed within the context of competency-based education, the educational model for the predoctoral curriculum endorsed by the American Dental Education Association and prescribed by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. The article concludes with a summary of assessments recommended as optimal strategies to measure three components of professional competence based on the triangulation model. The survey of assessment practices in predoctoral education was completed by 931 course directors, representing 45 percent of course directors nationwide, from fifty-three of the fifty-six U.S. dental schools. Survey findings indicate that five traditional mainstays of student performance evaluation-multiple-choice testing, lab practicals, daily grades, clinical competency exams, and procedural requirements-still comprise the primary assessment tools in dental education. The survey revealed that a group of newer assessment techniques, although frequently identified as best practices in the literature and commonly used in other areas of health professions education, are rarely employed in predoctoral dental education.

Research paper thumbnail of Using the IDEA framework in an interprofessional didactic elective course to facilitate positive changes in the roles and responsibility competency

Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of The Influence of Prices on Within-Year Persistence by Traditional College-Age Students In Four-Year Colleges

Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of A manpower survey of dental assistants in the Greater New Orleans area

Research paper thumbnail of Class attitudes of dental hygiene students toward their education

Research paper thumbnail of The influence of background : graduate experience, aspirations, expected earnings, and financial commitment on within-year persistence of students enrolled in graduate programs : a dissertation /

Research paper thumbnail of ADEA President-Elect's Address: The Next Right Thing

Journal of dental education

Research paper thumbnail of Bacterial biofilm: A source of dental air water syringes contamination

Clinical preventive dentistry

This study examined the bacteriology of dental air-water syringes, and found that the water deliv... more This study examined the bacteriology of dental air-water syringes, and found that the water delivered by these syringes can be persistently contaminated with bacteria. Flushing of the water line reduced but did not eliminate this contamination. Even after six minutes' flushing, some water samples still contained more than 10(4) viable bacterial cells per milliliter, although coliform counts were less than two per 100 milliliters as measured by a Most Probable Number assay. Sterilization of the tip or the entire syringe did not eliminate this contamination. Scanning electron microscopy revealed bacterial biofilms on the inner wall of the plastic tubing supplying water to the air-water syringe, but not on the air line or on new, unused tubing. Such biofilms probably can be found in any tubing which supplies water to components of dental units. The inoculum for these biofilms comes from ubiquitous environmental aquatic bacteria, some of which can cause disease in compromised patien...

Research paper thumbnail of The case for change in dental education

Journal of dental education

This article introduces a series of white papers developed by the ADEA Commission on Change and I... more This article introduces a series of white papers developed by the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation (CCI) to explore the case for change in dental education. This preamble to the series argues that there is a compelling need for rethinking the approach to dental education in the United States. Three issues facing dental education are explored: 1) the challenging financial environment of higher education, making dental schools very expensive and tuition-intensive for universities to operate and producing high debt levels for students that limit access to education and restrict career choices; 2) the profession's apparent loss of vision for taking care of the oral health needs of all components of society and the resultant potential for marginalization of dentistry as a specialized health care service available only to the affluent; and 3) the nature of dental school education itself, which has been described as convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to its s...

Research paper thumbnail of The dental education environment

Journal of dental education

The second in a series of perspectives from the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Denta... more The second in a series of perspectives from the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (CCI), this article presents the CCI's view of the dental education environment necessary for effective change. The article states that the CCI's purpose is related to leading and building consensus in the dental community to foster a continuous process of innovative change in the education of general dentists. Principles proposed by CCI to shape the dental education environment are described; these are critical thinking, lifelong learning, humanistic environment, scientific discovery and integration of knowledge, evidence-based oral health care, assessment, faculty development, and the health care team. The article also describes influences external to the academic dental institutions that are important for change and argues that meaningful and long-lasting change must be systemic in nature. The CCI is ADEA's primary means to engage all stakeholders for the purpo...

Research paper thumbnail of ADEA President's Address

Journal of dental education, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of The case for change in dental education

Journal of dental education, 2006

This article introduces a series of white papers developed by the ADEA Commission on Change and I... more This article introduces a series of white papers developed by the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation (CCI) to explore the case for change in dental education. This preamble to the series argues that there is a compelling need for rethinking the approach to dental education in the United States. Three issues facing dental education are explored: 1) the challenging financial environment of higher education, making dental schools very expensive and tuition-intensive for universities to operate and producing high debt levels for students that limit access to education and restrict career choices; 2) the profession's apparent loss of vision for taking care of the oral health needs of all components of society and the resultant potential for marginalization of dentistry as a specialized health care service available only to the affluent; and 3) the nature of dental school education itself, which has been described as convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to its s...

Research paper thumbnail of The dental education environment

Journal of dental education, 2006

The second in a series of perspectives from the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Denta... more The second in a series of perspectives from the ADEA Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (CCI), this article presents the CCI's view of the dental education environment necessary for effective change. The article states that the CCI's purpose is related to leading and building consensus in the dental community to foster a continuous process of innovative change in the education of general dentists. Principles proposed by CCI to shape the dental education environment are described; these are critical thinking, lifelong learning, humanistic environment, scientific discovery and integration of knowledge, evidence-based oral health care, assessment, faculty development, and the health care team. The article also describes influences external to the academic dental institutions that are important for change and argues that meaningful and long-lasting change must be systemic in nature. The CCI is ADEA's primary means to engage all stakeholders for the purpo...

Research paper thumbnail of Does faculty development enhance teaching effectiveness?

Journal of dental education, 2007

Academic dentists and members of the practice community have been hearing, for more than a decade... more Academic dentists and members of the practice community have been hearing, for more than a decade, that our educational system is in trouble and that the profession has lost its vision and may be wavering in the achievement of its goals. A core of consistently recommended reforms has framed the discussion of future directions for dental education, but as yet, most schools report little movement toward implementation of these reforms in spite of persistent advocacy. Provision of faculty development related to teaching and assessment strategies is widely perceived to be the essential ingredient in efforts to introduce new curricular approaches and modify the educational environment in academic dentistry. Analyses of the outcomes of efforts to revise health professions curricula have identified the availability and effectiveness of faculty development as a predictor of the success or failure of reform initiatives. This article will address faculty development for purposes of enhancing ...