A curriculum for the new dental practitioner: preparing dentists for a prospective oral health care environment

The emerging concept of prospective health care would shift the focus of health care from disease management to disease prevention and health management. Dentistry has a unique opportunity to embrace this model of prospective and collaborative care and focus on the management of oral health. Academi...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2012-02, Vol.102 (2), p.e1-e3
Main Author: Polverini, Peter J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomarkers
Chronic illnesses
Collaboration
Cooperative Behavior
Curricula
Curriculum
Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration
Delivery of Health Care - trends
Dental schools
Dentistry
Dentistry - organization & administration
Dentistry - trends
Dentists
Disease management
Disease prevention
Education
Education, Dental - organization & administration
Health care access
Health care industry
Health care policy
Hospitals
Humans
Integrated approach
Integrated delivery systems
Interprofessional Relations
Medical personnel
Online Only
Oral Health
Oral hygiene
Patients
Physicians
Preventive Dentistry - organization & administration
Preventive Dentistry - trends
Principles
Professionals
Professions
Proteomics
Public health
Public Health Dentistry - organization & administration
Public Health Dentistry - trends
Risk Assessment
United States
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Summary:The emerging concept of prospective health care would shift the focus of health care from disease management to disease prevention and health management. Dentistry has a unique opportunity to embrace this model of prospective and collaborative care and focus on the management of oral health. Academic dentistry must better prepare future dentists to succeed in this new health care environment by providing them with the scientific and technical knowledge required to understand and assess risk and practice disease prevention. Dental schools must consider creating career pathways for enabling future graduates to assume important leadership roles that will advance a prospective oral health care system.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300505