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 …

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

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

There is a growing trend among college accreditation bodies, especially in professional
schools, to incorporate self-assessment in the curriculum and deliver evidence of students' …

The aims of this pilot study were to assess dental hygiene faculty members’ perceptions of
the importance of motivational interviewing (MI) and their confidence in teaching students …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the use of loupes and lights in dental hygiene
programs, to assess why they are being used, and to evaluate at what point in time they …