Empowering patients to be effective advocates for their health requires that they have
adequate information and understanding about their health conditions. Many patients have …

Purpose The entrustable professional activity (EPA) framework is an assessment approach
used to define the educational outcomes of a program by outlining discrete work tasks …

Discussion: Oral complications of systemic disease and systemic complications of oral
disease impose significant burdens on populations and the public health infrastructure in …

Following the adoption of competency‐based education in dentistry in the 1990s,
entrustable professional activities (EPAs) were introduced in the field of medicine in the mid …

Introduction Standardized patient (SP) methodology has been used in health professional
education to help students develop communication, deeper diagnostic reasoning, and …

Purpose The need to innovate predoctoral dental education is well established; however,
there are few recent reports to guide substantial curriculum transformation. The purpose of …

Introduction As part of curriculum innovation, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Adams
School of Dentistry identified core entrustable professional activities (EPAs) that graduates …

Curriculum transformation is a guiding principle and driving force to continued institutional
growth and innovation in oral health education. The transformation process starts from the …

Purpose To describe the implementation and impact of an introductory session on
psychological safety for incoming first‐year Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) learners …

The release of the National Institutes of Health report, Oral Health in America: Advances and
Challenges, in 2022 identified a pressing concern about oral healthcare and that “the job is …