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Concepts in Critical Thinking Applied to Caries Risk Assessment in Dental Education
Author(s) -
GuzmanArmstrong Sandra,
Warren John J.,
CunninghamFord Marsha A.,
Bergmann HsingChi,
Johnsen David C.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.2014.78.6.tb05745.x
Subject(s) - succinctness , critical thinking , risk assessment , dental education , psychology , medical education , medicine , engineering ethics , mathematics education , computer science , engineering , computer security , theoretical computer science
Much progress has been made in the science of caries risk assessment and ways to analyze caries risk, yet dental education has seen little movement toward the development of frameworks to guide learning and assess critical thinking in caries risk assessment. In the absence of previous proactive implementation of a learning framework that takes the knowledge of caries risk and critically applies it to the patient with the succinctness demanded in the clinical setting, the purpose of this study was to develop a model learning framework that combines the science of caries risk assessment with principles of critical thinking from the education literature. This article also describes the implementation of that model at one dental school and presents some preliminary assessment data.