DHYG 328 Education Methodologies: Patient Centered Care (1 credit)
Course Description
Emphasis on effective communication with patients as well as co-workers. Students will be given the opportunity to develop their own style of presenting patient education while learning motivational techniques.
Course Content
Oral Health Education as it pertains to dental hygiene and the clinical setting
Learning/teaching theories
Patient Centered Care verses Provider Centered Care
Communication in patient education
Role of the dental hygienist as an oral health educator
Personality and learning styles
The adult learner: Malcom Knowles
The child learner
Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
Psychomotor, cognitive and affective learning performance objectives
Patient Goal Setting: Behavioral Changes
Lesson Plan Development: Know your audience (interview process), determine a concept, goals, performance objectives, teaching strategies, instructional materials and lesson implementation
Lesson Plan Evaluation
Constructive criticism
Student Outcomes
- Investigate learning/teaching theories and the purpose of oral health education in patient-centered care in order to promote equity in diverse communities.
- Analyze the challenges in conducting effective patient oral health education.
- Apply motivational interviewing techniques during oral health education simulations.
- Evaluate the learning styles of diverse communities of adult and child learners as it pertains to oral health education and patient-centered care.
- Design lesson plans for effectively communicate oral health education to diverse populations.
- Assess the effectiveness of patient oral health education.
Degree Outcomes
This course is part of the Bachelor of Applied Science in Dental Hygiene Degree. Please refer to the Dental Hygiene Competency Map for detail of the Program Competencies this course addresses. Each competency is identified at a level of skill by the terms Introductory (I), Developing (D), or Competent (C). The map also shows the alignment between each Program Competency and the Pierce College Core Ability(ies).
Core Abilities
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 10
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 10
Potential Methods
Class discussion
Written examinations
Research project
Oral presentations
Case studies/analysis
Service learning projects
Peer evaluations
Self evaluations
ePortfolio
Clinical (Acceptable, Improvable, Standard Not Met) AIS Evaluation Criteria and/or Pierce College Global Rubrics
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