PMID- 27197363
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160616
LR  - 20160520
IS  - 0025-4800 (Print)
IS  - 0025-4800 (Linking)
VI  - 64
IP  - 4
DP  - 2016 Winter
TI  - A New Integrated Oral Health and Primary Care Education Program in the Dental 
      Student Clinic.
PG  - 26-30
AB  - OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the study was to describe the implementation of a new 
      program incorporating primary care education into a predoctoral dental curriculum 
      in the StudentTeaching Clinic at Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) using 
      the primary care rotations for students in a dental setting as a platform for 
      change in our approach to patient care. METHODS: A survey of perspectives on the 
      need for primary care medicine in dental education was distributed to all the 
      deans of Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA)-accredited dental schools in 
      the continental United States for a total of 65 eligible schools. RESULTS: Of the 
      27 responses from the dental school deans, a majority of dental schools already 
      had interprofessional collaborative practices at their schools, with 
      collaborations with physicians and nurse practitioners being most common. 
      Ninety-six percent of responders were supportive of integrating oral health and 
      primary care to improve patient care and regarded primary care training for 
      dental students as a potential method of improving patient care in dental 
      education. CONCLUSION: As patient care involves multidisciplinary and 
      interprofessional environments with a wide array of health care providers, 
      curricular directions for dental school should explore an education model that 
      incorporates the concepts of primary care medicine.
FAU - Park, Sang E
AU  - Park SE
FAU - Saldana, Fidencio
AU  - Saldana F
FAU - Donoff, R Bruce
AU  - Donoff RB
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Mass Dent Soc
JT  - Journal of the Massachusetts Dental Society
JID - 7503082
MH  - Boston
MH  - Clinical Competence
MH  - Cooperative Behavior
MH  - Curriculum
MH  - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
MH  - Dental Care
MH  - Dental Clinics
MH  - *Education, Dental
MH  - Education, Medical
MH  - Humans
MH  - Interprofessional Relations
MH  - Models, Educational
MH  - *Oral Health
MH  - Patient Care Team
MH  - *Primary Health Care
MH  - Program Development
MH  - Schools, Dental
MH  - *Students, Dental
EDAT- 2016/05/21 06:00
MHDA- 2016/06/17 06:00
CRDT- 2016/05/21 06:00
PHST- 2016/05/21 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/05/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/06/17 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Mass Dent Soc. 2016 Winter;64(4):26-30.