DEFINING NEW STANDARDS FOR EDUCATION

Faculty Development Day September 22, 2009

• Overview of Curriculum Development• Update on each strand• Focus on Clinical Practice

Advance Organizer

Active integrated curriculum vision

Graduating lifelong learners and critical thinkers able to integrate the science and technology of dentistry

Curricular reform focus on:– Active integrated learning– Critical thinking– Multidisciplinary courses– Small group case based learning as

signature pedagogy

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Faculty Perspective

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Student Perspective

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Content Areas Biochemistry Critical Thnkng Ethics Perio Implants Etc…

Learner centered active integrated curriculum

Last winter quarter a clinic model committee was assembled to study our clinic teaching model and make recommendations to the Dean for improvement to the organization/management of our current system.

Committee• Terry Hoover (Chair)• Marc Geissberger• Cindy Lyon • Alan Budenz • Peter Hansen• Eddie Hayashida • Russ Woodson • Foroud Hakim• Brian Gilmore (student rep)• Nader Nadershahi

Brief overview of our Recommendation:

• Combining of 2nd and 3rd year students into one teaching model—no separate 2nd year clinic; each clinical teaching group would contain both 2nd and 3rd year students

Brief overview of our Recommendation:

• Combining of 2nd and 3rd year students into one teaching model—no separate 2nd year clinic; each clinical teaching group would contain both 2nd and 3rd year students

• GPM faculty would be expanded through cross training to include faculty from multiple departments supervising all ODTP, restorative, simple perio, removable, and possibly screening and emergency care in each teaching group

• In this new model we were looking for more effective ways to utilize our faculty specialists

• In this new model we were looking for more effective ways to utilize our faculty specialists

• There was no consensus on the number of groups but the additional GPMs assigned to each of these larger groups would maintain our current student/faculty ratio and would provide enough faculty to buffer unexpected faculty absences, meeting attendance, or integrated curriculum needs

There is now an implementation group chaired by Anders Nattestad looking at this recommendation, soliciting additional input from the Pacific community, and synthesizing ideas of their own with the goal of moving any eventual model change forward. The SWOT analysis we will be doing today is important to Dr. Nattestad’s group.