DHYG 438 Community Oral Health Practicum (1 credit)
Course Description
Integration of instructional and research application. Entails exploring the role of the dental hygienist in public health agendas, community outreach services, advocacy, and business management as an integral member, leader, and agent of change in the inter-disciplinary healthcare team.
Course Content
Process and conclusions from observation, analysis, interpretation, speculation and evaluation in community health research
Problem-solving using alternative answers related to community health programs.
Civic, social, and environmental responsibility appropriate to the community.
Awareness and implications of sound oral health practices.
Effective roles under conditions of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflict.
Oral health status and needs of high-risk populations as it relates to establishing business definitions, market strategy, and service line products.
Selection criteria of target populations for community oral health programs and prospective business entities.
Components of community oral health program development; a) Assessment, b) Planning, c) Implementation, d) Evaluation
Criteria and techniques for dental surveying and educational instruction in the development of a business model as a community oral health educator.
Oral health program business goals and objectives with understanding of their values and limitations.
11 Principals and procedures to determine the extent to which specified community program goals and objectives have been attained through service learning projects and business development.
Student Outcomes
- Analyze community oral health program needs.
- Develop an evidence-based community health business model.
- Reflect on how to implement oral health programs with diverse community audiences.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the implemented program.
Degree Outcomes
This course is part of the Bachelor Science in 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.
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 7
Lab Contact Hours 6
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 13
Potential Methods
Group discussion
Group written assignments
Group oral presentations
Individual written report
Individual oral presentations
Patient evaluations
Community group evaluations
Teaching practicum
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