Dental Public Health

PA-015 - Rising Together: Creating Collaborative Multi-site Courses Across Universities

Sunday, March 20, 2022

10:30am – 11:30am EST

CE: 1 Hr.

Designation: SoTL

Presenter(s)

Erinne N. Kennedy, D.M.D., MPH, MMSc

University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Dentistry

PDF Handouts
Karin Quick, DDS, PhD

School of Dentistry
CD

Chester W. Douglass, DMD, PhD.

Harvard School of Dental Medicine

The participants will engage in learning and brainstorming for a sample collaborative multisite course (CMC). We briefly describe an approach we used to enroll an interdisciplinary mix of students including dental (D1-4) students, residents and allied health care providers from five dental schools and one public health school participating in inter-university collaboration. This approach made use of Information Technology such as Zoom, Canvas, and Google Suite, and Staged Self-Directed Learning methods. We provide some “lessons learned” from our experience. Participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm how this approach could be tailored to their school.

Learning Objectives:

Articulate the role collaborative multisite courses have in improving cost-effectiveness, faculty development, education quality and standardizing dental education.
Compare and contrast the lessons learned from delivering a collaborative multi site virtual oral health policy course in Fall 2020 and Fall 2021.
Brainstorm and design a sample collaborative course in dental education and share with the group.
Articulate the role collaborative multisite courses have in improving cost-effectiveness, faculty development, education quality and standardizing dental education.