A problem-based learning tutorial for dental students regarding elderly residents in a nursing home in Japan

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1580-1588

  Matsuka, Yoshizo ^a   Nakajima, Ryu ^b   Miki, Haruna ^b   Kimura, Aya ^b   Kanyama, Manabu ^b   Minakuchi, Hajime ^b   Shinkawa, Shigehiko ^b   Takiuchi, Hiroya ^b   Nawachi, Kumiko ^b   Maekawa, Kenji ^b   Arakawa, Hikaru ^b   Fujisawa, Takuo ^b   Sonoyama, Wataru ^b   Mine, Atsushi ^b   Hara, Emilio Satoshi ^b   Kikutani, Takeshi ^c   Kuboki, Takuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dementia; Dental education; Dental students; Dependent elderly; Health care for the elderly; Japan; Nursing homes; Patients with special needs; Problem based learning; Systemic disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL PROCEDURE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING HOME; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY DENTISTRY; DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; DENTIST'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; EDUCATION, DENTAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC DENTISTRY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; JAPAN; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 84871046717     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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