Enhancing dental students' understanding of poverty through simulation

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1053-1061

  Lampiris, Lewis N ^a   White, Alex ^b   Sams, Lattice D ^a   White, Tiffany ^a   Weintraub, Jane A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Community based dental education; Cultural competence; Dental education; Educational methodology; Health care disparities; Underserved patients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL PROCEDURE; DENTAL STUDENT; EXERCISE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MISSOURI; POVERTY; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; ROLE PLAYING; ROTATION; SIMULATION; STAFF; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, DENTAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; POVERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROLE PLAYING; SELF REPORT; STUDENTS, DENTAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85030621873     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21815/JDE.017.061     Document Type: Article

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