Objective Broken appointments cause adverse outcomes in healthcare systems: They interrupt
continuity of care, waste resources, affect workflow, and reduce population‐wide access …

Although there are many benefits of interprofessional health care, no previous research has
sought to define the status of interprofessional education (IPE) in US dental hygiene …

Purpose: Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based, patient-centered counseling
approach for eliciting behavior change. In 2012, the University of Michigan (UM) Dental …

Distance education offers an opportunity to catalyze sweeping curricular change. Faculty
members of the University of Michigan Dental Hygiene Program spent eighteen months …

The objectives of this project were to create a program that would expose underrepresented
minority (URM) and low income (LI) high school students to dental professions and provide …

Program evaluation is a necessary component of curricular change and innovation. It ascertains
whether an innovation has met benchmarks and contributes to the body of knowledge …

The health care system is undergoing transformation in which oral health is not only valued
as an aspect of overall health, but health care delivery systems are aligning to better deliver …

Purpose: Using John Kingdon's agenda-setting model, this paper explores how Minnesota
came to legislate a mid-level dental practitioner to its oral health workforce. Using a pluralist …

ePortfolios and other engaged learning experiences can have extensive impact on students
in many facets of their lives, such as subject-area learning, skill and competence …

Reflecting upon and sharing of clinical experiences in dental hygiene education is a
strategy used to support the application of didactic material to patient care. The promotion of …