Recruiting Underrepresented Minority and Low–Income High School Students into Dentistry While Educating Dental and Dental Hygiene Students About Academic Careers

Inglehart, Marita R.; Stefanac, Stephen J.; Johnson, Kimberly P.; Gwozdek, Anne E.; May, Kenneth B.; Piskorowski, William; Woolfolk, Marilyn W.

doi:10.1002/j.0022-0337.2014.78.3.tb05692.x

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“…Mentoring and role modeling in psychology may be often engaged in without deliberate intentions, thus limiting the scope and impact of mentor and role model relationships (Johnson, 2002) Though research has demonstrated that mentors and role models are beneficial (Johnson, 2002), the focus of mentoring literature in psychology has been on graduate training. This is not consistent with literature in other health care fields (Inglehart et al, 2014; Rosenthal, Levy, London, Lobel, & Bazile, 2013), as well as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (Dabneya et al, 2012; Kaye, Berns, Cress, & Nazar, 2014; Sadler, Sonnert, Hazari, & Tai, 2012). Research in these fields has emphasized mentoring relationships in undergraduate and even high school education.…”

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Mentoring the earliest-career psychologists: Role models, knowledge of internship issues, and attitudes toward research and science.

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Oliver²

2015

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Training of undergraduate psychology students who will go on to be graduate students has received little research attention. The present study sought to investigate the influence of role models among psychol ogy undergraduates, attitudes toward research, and knowledge of internship-related issues. Participants were 220 undergraduate students from across the United States and Canada who intended to pursue graduate training in psychology. Results of group difference tests, logistic regressions, and multivariate analyses of variance indicated that perceived socioeconomic status (SES) but not gender or raceethnicity was associated with influence of role models such that lower perceived SES participants reported less influence of role models than higher perceived SES participants. Influence of role models was also positively related to belief in the use of research but not in attitudes toward research or belief in its relevance to clinical practice. Finally, deficits were detected in participants' knowledge of internship-related issues in psychology, and influence of role models was not associated with knowledge of those issues. The results of this study may inform future research on the training of the earliest-career psychologists (i.e., undergraduate students) and also suggest areas for direct improvements in under graduate curriculums.

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Mentoring the earliest-career psychologists: Role models, knowledge of internship issues, and attitudes toward research and science.

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Oliver²

2015

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…This curriculum was a collaboration between a tertiary care children's hospital and the local public school system to bring a public health curriculum to 4 high schools. Similar school-based interventions, including programs addressing obesity through gardening and physical fitness 15 and programs aimed at reducing dental disease through education, 16 have successfully targeted public health concerns. Additionally, other schoolbased curricula have been designed to encourage underrepresented minority students to enter professional health fields, such as public health, 17 medical professions, 18 and dentistry.…”

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Empowering High School Students to Address Racial Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…This suggestion is also supported by the finding that word of mouth and one‐on‐one recruitment efforts were said to be the most effective recruitment practices for these programs. Considering other practices for the recruitment of URM students such as informing students earlier— for example in high school 25 , 26 —and engaging high school counselors more actively 25 should definitely happen as well. In addition, the responses of URM dental hygiene students about their decisions to enroll in these programs reported in Sandino and Rowe's study could be quite helpful in developing specific recruitment approaches 16 …”

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Recruitment of Dental Hygiene Students from Underrepresented Minority Groups: A National Survey of U.S. Dental Hygiene Programs

Hunter¹,

Kinney

Inglehart

2015

Journal of Dental Education

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The aims of this study were to assess how U.S. undergraduate dental hygiene programs recruit students, especially students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups, and how the program directors value recruiting those students, how satisied they are with their efforts, which practices they use, and which challenges they encounter. Relationships between diversityrelated recruitment motivation and satisfaction and the program and recruitment characteristics were also explored. Survey data were collected from 56 of the 287 programs that could be successfully contacted with individual emails to their directors (response rate: 20%). The majority of responding programs recruited students into their programs by using written materials (91%), websites (91%), on-campus events (77%), and high school visits (52%). However, only 20% had written materials and 13% special events for recruiting students from URM groups. While 75% of the responding program directors considered high grade point averages (GPAs) to be a priority and 85% thought high GPAs were important/very important when recruiting students, only 17% considered it a priority to recruit URM students, and only 35% reported thinking it was important/very important to do so. The more of a priority it was to have a diverse student body and the more important the respondents considered it, the more likely they were to have written URM-speciic recruitment materials (r=0.34; p<0.05/r=0.39; p<0.01). The more the respondents valued ACT scores, the less likely they were to engage in URM-speciic recruitment efforts (r=-0.38; p<0.05/r=-0.34; p<0.05). If the dental hygiene profession is to better relect the racial/ethnic makeup of the U.S. population, dental hygiene programs' considerations and efforts related to the recruitment of URM students need to be reconsidered.Dr.

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Recruiting Underrepresented Minority and Low–Income High School Students into Dentistry While Educating Dental and Dental Hygiene Students About Academic Careers

Cited by 14 publications

References 27 publications

Mentoring the earliest-career psychologists: Role models, knowledge of internship issues, and attitudes toward research and science.

Mentoring the earliest-career psychologists: Role models, knowledge of internship issues, and attitudes toward research and science.

Empowering High School Students to Address Racial Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Recruitment of Dental Hygiene Students from Underrepresented Minority Groups: A National Survey of U.S. Dental Hygiene Programs

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