DHYG 451 Extramural Practice II (2 credits)
Course Description
The second course focused on service learning and community engagement at college contracted external agencies that includes specialty practice providers and serving marginalized populations.
Course Content
Externship service learning
Inter and intra-professional settings
Clinical dental hygiene skills per Washington State RCW 18.39
Community engagement
Enrichment clinical dental rotation sites
Specialty practice providers
Mobile clinics
Other healthcare facilities settings
Educational healthcare settings
Affiliated associations
Professional communications
Professional responsibility and accountabilit
Marginalized populations
College contacted external agency compliance
Student Outcomes
- Demonstrate competent, safe, ethical, and legal dental hygiene treatment at college contracted external agencies for their clients.
- Evaluate dental hygiene diagnoses and treatment planning for marginalized populations.
- Communicate clearly and responsibly with a variety of audiences within a variety of contexts.
- Demonstrate the ability to meet the criteria, expectations, and requirements established by clinical rotation sites.
Degree Outcomes
This course is part of the Bachelor of Applied Science in Dental Hygiene. 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 Refleceetive 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.
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.
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.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 40
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 40
Potential Methods
Location supervisor evaluation
Student self-evaluation
ePortfolio
Instructor evaluation
Clinical (Acceptable, Improvable, Standard Not Met) AIS Evaluation Criteria and/or Pierce College Global Rubrics
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