PMID- 20930243
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20101025
LR  - 20101008
IS  - 1930-7837 (Electronic)
IS  - 0022-0337 (Linking)
VI  - 74
IP  - 10
DP  - 2010 Oct
TI  - Comparison of clinical productivity of senior dental students in a dental school 
      teaching clinic versus community externship rotations.
PG  - 1125-32
AB  - The aim of this study was to report on the clinical and monetary productivity of 
      fourth-year dental students at community-based clinical sites and school-based 
      clinics at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM). This study included 
      forty-seven students from the graduating classes of 2006, 2007, and 2008. These 
      fourth-year students were required to spend twelve weeks at one of several 
      participating community health centers throughout Massachusetts and New 
      Hampshire. Students also treated their patient pool in the teaching practice at 
      HSDM in the fourth year. The most common sixty American Dental Association 
      procedure codes were compared, and variables were created by grouping them by 
      specialty or type of service. HSDM dental students completed 8,365 procedures at 
      an externship site during their community experience. An average of 178 
      procedures was completed per student, and mean revenue of $17,486 was produced. 
      In comparison, the same students completed 3,640 procedures during an equal 
      amount of time spent (normalized for this study) at the school teaching practice 
      clinic, where each student completed an average of seventy-seven procedures and 
      generated $16,802 in revenue. The results of this study show that fourth-year 
      dental students at the community health centers, working under the supervision of 
      adjunct faculty, completed more than double the number of procedures they did in 
      the HSDM teaching practice clinic. However, the revenue generated was very 
      similar at the two sites. In addition, the types of procedures performed by 
      students at externship sites were simpler than the complex and specialized 
      procedures performed at the HSDM clinic, which include fixed and removable 
      prosthetics, periodontal surgery, and implantology.
FAU - Perez, Fernando A
AU  - Perez FA
AD  - Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 188 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. 
      nadeem_karimbux@hsdm.harvard.edu
FAU - Allareddy, Veerasathpurush
AU  - Allareddy V
FAU - Howell, Howard
AU  - Howell H
FAU - Karimbux, Nadeem
AU  - Karimbux N
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Dent Educ
JT  - Journal of dental education
JID - 8000150
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Community Dentistry/*education
MH  - *Community Health Services
MH  - Current Procedural Terminology
MH  - Dental Care/statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Dental Clinics
MH  - Education, Dental/*methods
MH  - *Efficiency
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Income/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Least-Squares Analysis
MH  - Linear Models
MH  - Male
MH  - Massachusetts
MH  - New Hampshire
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Schools, Dental
MH  - Statistics, Nonparametric
MH  - Students, Dental
EDAT- 2010/10/12 06:00
MHDA- 2010/10/26 06:00
CRDT- 2010/10/09 06:00
PHST- 2010/10/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/10/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/10/26 06:00 [medline]
AID - 74/10/1125 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Dent Educ. 2010 Oct;74(10):1125-32.