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Integrating person-centered care into dental education: An oral medicine perspective
Stuart Taylor1, Edmond Truelove1
1Department of Oral Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Abstract:
Dental education is moving toward models of education and care that are person-centered. The purpose of this article is to explore and describe the teaching and patient care model (the attending-based model) used for the past 50 years in the oral medicine department at one dental education institution. This article briefly discusses how this teaching model promotes person-centered care and the biopsychosocial model, while highlighting some of the barriers, benefits, and opportunities to wider adoption in dental education.
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