Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships: . Salma Elwazeer, BDS, MDS, MPH: Disclosure information not submitted.. Sohini Dhar, DDS, MPH: Disclosure information not submitted.
Session Description: Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Community-based learning are emphasized to improve the quality of care among diverse populations. Hunt School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) is the first dental school in West Texas aiming to serve a Spanish-speaking community that has always been considered underserved. Cultural and linguistic competency and IPE are among the foundations of HSDM curriculum. The majority of the dental public health curriculum is taught inteprofessionally with Foster School of Medicine. Both dental and medical students work in interactive interprofessional teams didactically and in their local communities. They start their dental/medical journeys with a three-week intense interprofessional community immersion and accelerated conversational Spanish practice. Community Assessment Projects, Clinician Cultural Competence Media Campaigns, Spanish Health Promotion Videos, IPE Case-Based Activities, and a Simulation-Based Accountable Care Organization Exercise are among the community-oriented interprofessional curricular components. This pioneering model aims to build culturally and linguistically competent healthcare providers with interprofessional collaborative capacities.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Community-Based Learning as foundations of the dental curricula.
2. Describe the integrated Dental-Medical Education Model at Hunt School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) and its connection to the local community.
3. Discuss the role of early community engagement, conversational language training, and interprofessional education (IPE) in developing culturally and linguistically competent health care providers with interprofessional collaborative capacities.
