Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education, treatment costs, and access to care. (2023) A lot of people, they come to the dental school because they have to because we’re the only place that’ll take Medicaid anywhere around them. And they maybe don’t want to be at a dental school or want to be seen by […]
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education and barriers to care. (2023) The intrinsic motivation that you were talking about to go to do these things, I feel it just interplays into a lot of daily nuances that are really hard to police and change. If you want to do something in your heart, you need
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs, dental training/education and access to care. (2023) I’m not sure, I think it’s so multifaceted and that’s why everybody’s talking about a different aspect of it. I mean, starting from a legislative component, we got some exposure to that. I mean, now they’re trying to put some laws in
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education and race. (2023) When you see patients, a lot of your interpersonal skills come from what you’ve seen in life, what you’ve experienced, and your development. So when that problem [. . .] The shift in dentistry needs to take place from a deeper. . .More people need to
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental education/training, treatment costs and access to care. (2023) I feel like at some level it does come down to individuals making decisions, to be internally motivated to serve populations that might not have as much of a financial return. I think that there’s… At least from what I understand, Medicaid
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education, race, social determinants of health, and patient care. (2023) I would say I understand the purpose of OSPEs [objective structured practical examinations] and standardizing things, but I think when it comes to patient care, you can only calibrate and standardize so much in a person. And so I understand
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss quality of patient care, dental training/education, and social determinants of health. (2023) I’m going to disagree with the OSPE [objective structured practical examination] thing, personally, because I think we were basically given scripts, and you think you were lucky if you were able to take from that, and make it your
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss social determinants of health, trust, and bias. (2023) One of my first patients I ever worked with, I was a very new clinician. He is HIV positive, he’s disabled, so he’s not working. He had a lot of background characteristics that were not things that I had dealt with before, not
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education. (2023) Did I anticipate having to do administrative work in clinical care as a student? No, I did not. I didn’t anticipate having to schedule and anticipate having to. Even though I had a bit of experience working at a front desk at a dental office, and then just
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss finding/recruiting patients and dental training/education . (2023) There’s a variety of ways that it could look like, but I have classmates that have been out in public and have… I mean one girl was saying she was in an Uber and said, “Do you need a dentist?” And we have business
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