Innovative Approaches for Fostering DEI Development in Preclinical and Clinical Training

Watanabe, Marisa K.; O’Connor, Lucian; Boyer, Keith R.; Parado, T. Jamie; Saraza, Paulina A.; Hewlett, Edmond R.; Taylor, George W.; Henson, Bradley S.

doi:10.1080/19424396.2022.12224350

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“…With growing oral health disparities in HURE/HURM patient communities, a diverse dental workforce is needed to create long‐lasting changes to curtail systemic and structural barriers that impede optimal oral health care. A study examining the California dental schools determined that establishing DEIB in didactic and clinical settings is opportune to providing patient‐centered care to vulnerable populations outside the walls of dental institutions 17 . This, in turn, may also facilitate dental institution exposure to the outside community, which can be vessels for pathway programs to recruit diverse student applicants interested in oral health careers 18 …”

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Perceptions of the dental education‐wide climate: Analysis of the 2022 ADEA climate study focus groups

Escontrías,

West

2023

Journal of Dental Education

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ObjectiveClimate assessments in higher and postsecondary education institutions are essential in landscaping inclusiveness and belonging for students, faculty, and staff. Although some climate assessments in dental education have been conducted either as part of their own campus or parent university climate assessment, a dental education‐wide climate study has not been conducted across dental schools and allied dental education programs in the United States and Canada.MethodsAs integral part of the 2022 ADEA Climate Survey in Dental Education, focus groups were conducted from March to April 2022 to ascertain the perceptions of students, faculty, and staff in dental education. A phenomenological study on 85 focus group participants comprised of students, faculty, and staff at U.S. and Canadian dental schools and allied dental education programs was conducted. Thematic analyses were structured on four overarching categories: (1) belonging, (2). bias, (3) challenges and barriers, and (4) future recommendations.ResultsSeveral themes emerged across all groups. The lack of inclusion and belonging on campuses, deficit of faculty of color, microaggressions and differential treatment of students of color, and the need to enhance recruitment of diverse students and faculty of color were among themes identified. Exclusive to U.S. allied dental education programs, exposure to unique community and clinical opportunities for students was identified as an important theme to enhance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB).ConclusionThe first‐ever dental education‐wide climate study exposes the need to undertake this initiative in academic dentistry. The ongoing challenges unveiled in this study offer an opportunity to identify solutions that are meaningful, inclusive, impactful, and that foster humanistic learning environments for students, faculty, and staff in dental education.

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