Increasing dental hygiene student diversity: Life-performance questions as alternative admissions criteria

Journal of Allied Health

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 279-284

  Helm, Denise Muesch ^a   Grabarek, Ellen S ^b   Reveal, Marjorie ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Box 15065 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; COMPETENCE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOUTH HYGIENE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DENTAL EDUCATION; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; MALE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ARIZONA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATION, DENTAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORAL HYGIENE; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA;

EID: 1442328550     PISSN: 00907421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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