Association for Dental Education in Europe

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Building patient-based, student-led exercises using concepts in critical thinking

Wednesday, 23rd August 2023 - 11:30 to 13:00
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Timezone: 

BST (UTC+1)

Duration: 

90 Minute

Venue: 

Spaces 8 & 9 @ The Spine

Building patient-based, student-led exercises using concepts in critical thinking
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Session synopsis: 

Critical thinking is an essential skill for dental practice. The purposes:

Part 1: A presentation offering concepts in critical thinking followed by twelve explicit peer-reviewed critical thinking skillsets used by dentists on a daily basis - treatment planning, risk assessments for caries, geriatrics, and periodontal disease, Interprofessional Practice, technology decision-making, implant decision-making, projection of empathy and compassion, ethics, social work, literature search and critique, EBD. Assessments are offered.

Part 2: An interactive workshop with one option to construct a patient-based, student-led exercise in thinking and judgment with a second option to critique one of the twelve exercises offered. Exercises offered follow an emulation model based on deriving the thought processes of the master clinician succinctly enough for the student to apply to the next patient situation. The learning outcome is the thought process of the master clinician which also becomes the learning guide and assessment instrument.

Programme: 
11:30 Welcome
11:35 Concepts of critical thinking
12:00 12 explicit critical thinking patient based, student led demonstrations of thinking and judgement in patient care
12:30 Workshop to 1: Begin development of a critical thinking skillset of the participant's choosing or 2: critique one of the critical thinking skillsets offered in the presentation
12:55 Closing remarks
Speakers: 

David C. Johnsen

Dean Emeritus and Professor of Pediatric Dentistry
University of Iowa, United States

Prof David C. Johnsen, D.D.S., M.S. received his DDS degree from the University of Michigan in 1970 and his MS in Pediatric Dentistry from the University of Iowa in 1973. He became board certified in Pediatric Dentistry in 1978. Professor Johnsen has been on the faculties of West Virginia University from 1974-80, with the Outstanding Teacher Award, 1976; Case Western Reserve University from 1980-95, where he served as Department Chair, intermittently as Director of the Residency Program, and as Interim Dean in 1993; and served as Dean of Dentistry at the University of Iowa from 1995 to 2021. He is now Dean Emeritus and Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Iowa.

Professor Johnsen’s research and scholarship have focused in three main areas, two with federal funding: Innervation of teeth as an indicator of capacity to transmit pain sensory impulses (NIH) and early childhood caries/caries patterns in preschoolers (MCH). The latter area included demonstration projects or consulting nationally in the Women, Infant, and Children’s (WIC) Program and the Head Start Program.  Current activity is in the methodology for critical thinking learning and assessment; he is in the top 1% of scholars writing about Dental Education over the past 10 years. He has also published on a variety of clinical and educational topics.

Professional service has included the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Board of Directors, 1988-91 and Child Health (legislative) Advocate, 1992-95, with the Distinguished Service Award in 1996.  Dr. Johnsen received the Achievement Award from the Ohio Dental Association in 1992. He served on the American Dental Education Association Council of Deans Board, 1998-2001 and as ADEA President, 2002-2003. He received the ADEA Distinguished Service Award in 2021. He received the Jack Hein Public Service Award from the American Association for Dental Research in 2010. He served (2010-13) on the National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council (NIH). He was Director of the Dental Deans Institute from 2014 - 2021. He is currently on the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Dental Association.

University Service has included: Election to Chair the Faculty Senate at Case Western Reserve University, 1994. At the University of Iowa, he served as Chair of the Search for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics CEO, 2002; as Co-Convener of the Health Sciences Policy Council, 2003-04; as Co-Chair of the University Task Force on Clinical/Translational Research in 2005-2006; as Chair of the Nursing Dean Search in 2006; as Chair of the Presidential Search in 2007; as Chair of the UI Museum of Art Director Search in 2010; and as Chair of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean Search in 2012.  

Learning Outcomes: 

On completion of the session the delegate will be able to:

  • Articulate key critical thinking concepts to build patient-based, student led demonstrations for thinking and judgment in patient care.  A model learning outcome offered in this session is based on emulation of the expert’s thought process.

  • Articulate a central learning outcome to build patient-based, student led demonstrations for thinking and judgment in patient care.  A central outcome offered here is the thought process of the expert becomes the learning outcome, learning guide and assessment instrument used to develop a dozen critical thinking skillsets.

  • Articulate one critical thinking skillset (or the general theme for a skillset) the participant can begin to develop in the workshop OR critique one of the dozen critical thinking skillsets offered in the session.

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