The buy or lease decision in dental curricula

Dental schools are aware of the need to adequately prepare graduates for the business aspects of dentistry in addition to the clinical, biomedical science, and interpersonal skills now necessary to succeed in practice. The challenge includes the alternatives of building such a program with existing faculty members (buy) or bringing in the kind of management program that practicing dentists would select (lease). Marquette University School of Dentistry has had three successful years of using the Pride Institute on a contract basis to provide a comprehensive practice management program.