Dental students and faculty members' attitudes towards care for underserved patients and community service: Do community-based dental education and voluntary service-learning matter?

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1127-1138

  Volvovsky, Mariya ^a   Vodopyanov, Dmitry ^b   Inglehart, Marita R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Community service; Community based dental education; Dental education; Dental students; Service learning; Underserved patients

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO CARE; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY-BASED DENTAL EDUCATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL PROCEDURE; DENTAL STUDENT; DENTAL STUDENTS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SERVICE-LEARNING; SOCIAL WELFARE; UNDERSERVED PATIENTS; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTEER; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ACCESS TO CARE; COMMUNITY SERVICE; COMMUNITY-BASED DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENTS; SERVICE-LEARNING; UNDERSERVED PATIENTS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY DENTISTRY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DENTAL CARE; EDUCATION, DENTAL; FACULTY, DENTAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, DENTAL; UNCOMPENSATED CARE; VOLUNTEERS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84906975502     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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