Seq #6 Wednesday, 12 March 2003
2:00 PM-4:00 PM Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center Room 213A, Symposium - Group/Division Sponsored
Contemporary Educational Strategies in Dental and Dental Hygiene Education: Their Impact on Teaching and Learning
* Poster files available online

Sponsored by: Education Research
Description: This symposium will explore the influence of innovative curricula on student learning and faculty teaching efforts. The knowledge and skills necessary to become a health professional are attained through experience within a variety of educational environments. The numerous techniques used to convey oral health expertise are assumed to result in student learning. The first two presentations will discuss programs presently in effect. The initial speaker will describe the genesis of a program designed to increase multicultural awareness. She will provide details about the school’s diversity orientation workshops and will illustrate how diversity content has been introduced into the curricula. The second speaker will describe her experience teaching a distance education course to both an onsite and a remote audience. Overcoming communication barriers, adapting to pragmatic issues, and confronting cultural aspects peculiar to this venue will be explored. Two students will provide the learner’s perspective on the success of these two initiatives. Discussion of the effect of a two-year problem-based learning program (PBL) on a traditional component of the dental curriculum will follow. The speaker will describe how a dental school’s PBL curriculum impacts on his pre-clinical laboratory program. At this institution, pre-clinical instruction is postponed until the summer before entry into the clinic in the third year. The resultant intensive summer restorative dentistry pre-clinical laboratory course will be outlined emphasizing the program’s effect on student clinical competency. The symposium’s final speaker will detail a national program designed to train health professionals to incorporate a new paradigm into an existing curriculum. Both the concepts of planning for and implementation of curricular change and also the development of techniques to teach evidence-based clinical practice will be explained. Time will be reserved for questions and discussion at the end of the presentations
Chairperson: E. ROMBERG
 
  2:00 PM Chair's Opening Remarks
0005  2:05 PM Why Is It Important to Discuss the Influence of Innovative Curricula on the Training of Oral Health Professionals?
E. ROMBERG, University of Maryland, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, USA
  2:15 PM Diversity Education for the Future: Why and How. The Faculty and Administrator Perspective
M.R. INGLEHART, L. TEDESCO, and M. WOOLFOLK, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, USA
  2:30 PM Diversity Orientation Workshops: A Student's Perspective
M. GINGRICH, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  2:45 PM Distance Education: Building Relationships between Teacher and Student across Both Time and Space: A Faculty Member's Perspective
M. DARBY, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
  3:00 PM The Psychomotor Fast-track Program: A Student's Perspective
K. KIKA, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  3:10 PM The postponement of pre-clinical instruction until the end of the second year
L. RUCKER, University of British Columbia Faculty of Dentistry, Vancouver, Canada
  3:25 PM Faculty Development for Curricular Innovation: Teaching Students to Practice Evidence-based Dntistry
J. FORREST, University of Southern California School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, USA
  3:40 PM Discussion

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