Masoumeh Mahmoudi, Ali Asghar Ghorbani, Mehdi Pourasghar, Azita Balaghafari, Jamshid Yazdani Charati, Nassim Ghahrani, Farzaneh Amini
Designing, implementation and evaluation of story reading: a solution to increase general empathy in medical students
BMC medical education
dental hygiene ethics essential component dental hygiene curriculum accreditation standards dental hygiene education state graduates must competent applying ethical concepts provision andor support oral health care services although standards entry profession dental hygiene emphasize importance ethical reasoning little published research specific ethics instruction dental hygiene programs purpose study assess ethics taught dental hygiene curriculum 17item survey designed distributed 261 accredited dental hygiene programs united states response rate 56 n147 survey requested participants provide information teaching evaluation methodologies didactic clinical hours instruction individuals responsible providing instruction degree emphasis placed ethics integration ethical reasoning within dental hygiene curriculum results survey reflect dental hygiene programs devote mean 20 hours teaching dental hygiene ethics didactic component curriculum regard clinical component curriculum 63 respondents indicated 10 less hours devoted ethics instruction results show increase didactic hours instruction previous studies mean hours instruction ranged 7 117 hours results showed 64 respondents offered separate course ethics however 82 programs surveyed indicated ethics incorporated one dental hygiene courses 98 utilizing dental hygiene faculty provide instruction programs utilized variety instructional methods teach ethics majority employing class discussion lecture 99 97 respectively type institutiontechnical college community college fouryear university dental school fouryear university without dental schoolhad little influence degree emphasis placed teaching ethics although number hours devoted ethics instruction increased 43 respondents indicated would like see emphasis placed ethics program affiliated study reveals programs taken measures employ variety teaching strategies ensure students competent applying ethical concepts provision oral health care however programs continue rely primarily traditional methods instruction evaluation lecture discussion quizzes written assignments inferential analysis focusing influence type institution showed general type institution little influence level emphasis placed teaching ethics dental hygiene curricula recommended dental hygiene programs continue implement evaluate instructional methods simulate real life experiences emphasize ethical concepts promote comprehensive oral health care future studies investigate effectiveness ethics instruction within dental hygiene curricula