This project is the culmination of a long-term program to enhance student competence and
program outcomes related to ethical reasoning and professionalism. The process included …

This study evaluated the short‐and long‐term effectiveness of faculty training to enhance
clinical evaluation of ethical reasoning and professionalism in a baccalaureate dental …

This exploratory study evaluated curricular content and evaluation mechanisms related to
ethics and professionalism in the baccalaureate dental hygiene program at Idaho State …

Purpose. Dental hygiene ethics is an essential component of the dental hygiene curriculum.
The accreditation standards for dental hygiene education state that graduates must be …

Ethics education has been a required part of accreditation standards for dental and dental
hygiene programs since the 1990s. The dominant approach uses a combination of lectures …

Pretest scores were analyzed for 41 professionals referred for ethics assessment by a dental
licensing board. Two were exempt from instruction based on pretest performance on five …

This article reports the findings of a survey‐based study conducted in 2006 to determine
graduating dental hygiene students' attitudes toward ethical dilemmas in eight areas of …

The purpose of this study was to determine the types and frequency of ethical problems
encountered by dental hygienists, and to determine the type of instruction they have …

This study describes the extent of formal instruction in ethics in dental hygiene programs.
Responses from 159 programs indicated that all hygiene programs include ethics in the …

Ethics education in dentistry is a requirement for accreditation. Despite universal adoption of
ethics courses, there is ongoing discussion about the appropriate content of these courses …