Appendix F: Descriptions of Elective Honors and Student Teacher Programs

STUDENT TEACHER
(FUTURE FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM)

Selection Criteria for Student Teacher Honors Program

Students must apply to the Incentive Program Director by October 15 to become a Student Teacher.

Selection criteria will be as follows:

Students must be recommended by the practice coordinator, clinical faculty and/or Dr. Odlum and/or relevant course faculty.
In order to be selected, applicants must have demonstrated excellence in preclinical skills, patient management and communication skills.
Class rank, National Board scores, leadership and community service experience will also be taken into account.
Students must be up to date in competency examination completions (Departments will be consulted).
Students interested in didactic Student Teacher programs must demonstrate excellent performance in the course and related courses and be approved by the Course Director.

Student Teacher programs are offered in the following areas: 1) Emergency Clinic, 2) Group Practice/Preclinical, 3) Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology and 4) Pediatric Dentistry and 5) Didactic Courses.

Students who participate in the Student Teacher programs:

1. may be called upon to assume some faculty-level administrative responsibilities, including interviewing predoctoral admissions candidates, proctoring examinations for didactic courses, conducting infection control audits and tutoring. The goals for this effort are to help augment the school’s administration with necessary teaching resources and to create beginner level competency in the multifactoral teaching/evaluation skills. Students are evaluated as to the appropriateness of their fit with the skills and professionalism required as a possible future faculty member.

2. are required to wear a Student Teacher name tag/badge in the clinic.

3. are required to wear a yellow lab gown in preclinical courses.

4. are required to abide by the Tufts University consensual relationships policy.

Year 4 (Future Faculty) Student Benefits:

1. Continue to build confidence and self-esteem.
2. Opportunity to share their knowledge in proper delivery of care.
3. Opportunity to further use the knowledge and the clinical experience learned over the past three years.
4. Development of teaching skills.

Year 3 Student Benefits:

1. More relaxed environment to learn in.
2. Improved communication skills.
3. More inclined to listen and remember.
4. More involvement in decision-making.
5. Less apprehensive to make suggestions and more forth coming in their questions.

TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES

All Student Teacher participants (except didactic course) work on the clinic floor. Additional responsibilities involve being assigned to student teach in the emergency clinic, group practice, a preclinical lab course, radiology clinic or pediatric dentistry.

1. Emergency Clinic
The goal of this program is to improve and enhance the teaching and learning of the students during their emergency clinic rotation. This program is rewarding to those Year 4 students who are achievers and beneficial to the Year 3 students who are assigned to this rotation. The program involves Year 4 incentive students in the emergency clinic assisting Year 3 students. The Year 4 students that are chosen will continue to gain clinical experience as well as learning to mentor or teach Year 3 students.

This program would assign 4-5 Year 4 students to emergency for one-half day per week. He or she will assist the Year 3 student in taking medical and dental histories, in addressing a patient's complaint, and in designing the treatment plan. The instructor will then review this plan with both students and after discussion the Year 3 student will execute the final plan. The students will both sharpen their awareness and ability to communicate, diagnose, plan and treat the many dental complaints that present themselves in the emergency clinic. This will be of great benefit to all of the students when they begin their dental careers.

Based on recommendations from Dr. Odlum, 4-5 students are selected to participate in this program at any one given time.

2. Group Practice/Preclinical Courses
Group Practice duties will be as follows:

Will be assigned by their PC or clinical faculty to work with low point Year 3 or Year 4 students in their own practice.
Responsibilities may be to help with paperwork, patient management, time management, scheduling patients, fee collection, knowing when to discontinue a patient, learning how to go beyond the XMRT, facilitating the accomplishment of non-quality monitoring steps, helping the treatment to be finished at that visit (stepping in to help the student make the second impression in order to eliminate the need for a third impression), helping with infection control procedures, conducting infection control audits, helping students to be organized, improving patient communication or organizing lab work.
Can sign for dispensing materials such as burs, impression material and amalgam/composite material for the student they are helping.

Preclinical Course duties will be as follows:

Serve as Student Teachers in the lab practical portions of the preclinical courses: Dental Anatomy/Occlusion, Fixed Prosthodontics and Operative. Student’s teachers are assigned by the Course Director to work under the supervision of one of the course faculty to assist one of the laboratory groups in the course. Student teachers provide guidance and assistance, make suggestions for improvement on the lab exercises and projects and may be asked to provide extra weekend or evening tutorial help prior to practical examinations.

3. Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
Responsibilities include:

Guide and assist, if needed, the students in rotation while they are imaging patients.
Perform panoramic and cephalometric imaging.
Assist and verify the film mounting done by students in rotation.
Make sure that strict infection control procedures are followed within the radiology clinic.
Assist Radiology faculty with the ICE seminars.

4. Pediatric Dentistry
Responsibilities include:

Assist faculty members and/or residents by assisting Third Year students in the diagnosis and treatment planning of both new and recare pediatric patients.
Participate in departmental seminars.

5. Didactic Courses

This program should interest the student seeking classroom didactic experience. Exceptional students may serve as a Student Teacher for a didactic course. They must have honored the course, have provided tutorial assistance for the course previously, and be recommended/approved by the course faculty/director. Ideally, the Student Teacher will be mentored by the course faculty to give one of the scheduled lectures in the course.

Responsibilities are as follows:

will be assigned by the course director to assist faculty both during the course and especially in the remedial process by providing tutorial assistance to failed students prior to reexamination.
will conduct individual and group tutoring sessions.
will proctor examinations.
will aid in course administration tasks.

6. Infection Control audits (part of clinic student teacher responsibilities)

Participation in the Infection Control Audit process includes the following duties:

Obtain audit forms; they are in an envelop with the Practice Assistant. Forms with the student’s name already present are those that need to be completed as soon as possible to meet competency requirements. Blank forms can be completed for any student.
Complete the entire top portion of the form, especially your name as “Auditor”.
Check the appropriate “Acceptable” or “Unacceptable” box for each item. (Remember the requirements. It is best to be fair and check off accurately.)
Note any comments on the sheet.
Give the yellow copy to the student.
Place the white copy in the yellow envelop on the door of DHS-415 for grading.

Additional Student Teacher Responsibilities

In addition to the responsibilities described for the Student Teacher positions, all Student Teachers will also participate in Admissions Interviewing and Exam Proctoring.

Predoctoral Admissions Interviewing
The Admissions Office with the support of the Admissions Committee has initiated a “Student Admissions Interviewer” program in conjunction with the Student Teacher and faculty training incentive program.

A well-planned and implemented student interviewer program now provides the Admissions Office and Admissions Committee with a reliable reserve of interviewers.

Along with the expansion of qualified interviewers, the “Student Admissions Interviewer” incentive program will have the following benefits:

1. The Admissions Committee will have the capacity to interview applicants in a timelier manner, with the ultimate goal of increasing the number of acceptances offered on December 1, a critical deadline date in dental admissions nationally.

2. Students know the strengths and weaknesses of their classmates, and therefore will be able to contribute to the Admissions Committee’s goals of admitting applicants that most closely embody the characteristics of the “ideal” student – sufficient academic preparedness, motivation, maturity, and interpersonal/communication skills.

3. The school will be contributing to the development of another important skill set that will aid in the students’ professional development.

Students selected for the incentive program will possess the characteristics of the students Tufts aims to accept – motivated, mature, strong interpersonal communication skills and public speaking skills, and a solid academic background. The selected students also must possess the ability to convey an honest, yet positive impression of Tufts, to maintain confidentiality and demonstrate professionalism.

Exam Proctoring
Students will be assigned for this by Student Affairs.

ELECTIVE HONORS PROGRAM

ESTHETIC DENTISTRY
Dr. Samer Kastali

Prerequisite:
Completion of the following Advanced Restorative Dentistry seminars/hands-on workshops:

Adhesive Dentistry/Direct Composite Resins
Resin Cements/Laminate Veneers
Porcelain Laminate Materials/All Ceramic Crowns
Advanced Technology Cerec System

Esthetic Dentistry workshops are given by Drs. Aboushala and Kugel. These workshops are held on Tuesday evenings, 4:30 – 7:00 in DHS-8 or DHS-9.

Guidelines:

Student must provide a patient.

The program will focus on the following areas:

Materials update including the latest in research in an ongoing form of literature review.
Hands on workshop with the latest esthetic material, how to chose, when to use and how to use.
Tooth whitening as it applies to the overall treatment plan presented in the context of a treatment plan workshop.
Hands on clinical experience with a chance to work up, prepare and place laminate veneers.
Dental photography.
Develop/Improve clinical skills with modem esthetic dental materials and techniques.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact

Dr. Samer Kastali
samer.kastali@tufts.edu
617 636-2739

IMPLANT DENTISTRY
Dr. Louis Rissin
GOAL:

To take exceptional senior dental students and immerse them in Implant Dentistry for a concentrated period of time.

OBJECTIVES:
1. Observe screening, diagnosis and treatment planning procedures utilized in the IMPLANT CENTER.

2. Reinforce students' knowledge in the diagnostic and clinical procedures leading to the placement of implant fixtures including:

CT scans
Fabrication of surgical template
Consultations with the surgical team and observation of implant placement procedures
Observation of Stage II surgeries

3. Reinforce the clinical procedures necessary in the fabrication of implant retained or supported prostheses including:

Re-evaluate 2-3 weeks after second stage surgery
Observe and make (when possible) final impressions for implant retained or supported prostheses
Prepare master casts and laboratory prescriptions
Try-in and evaluation of implant retained or supported frames/crowns
Observe and, when possible, placement of implant retained or supported prostheses

DURATION:
Second semester senior predoctoral students who have finished their requirements for graduation and express an interest in implant dentistry will have the opportunity to spend 1-3 months, 2-3 days per week in the IMPLANT CENTER prior to graduation to learn some of the clinical procedures required in implant dentistry.

AVAILABLE SPACE:

The IMPLANT CENTER can accommodate up to two senior students at a time January through May of Year 4, on a space available basis.

SAMPLE SCHEDULE FOR IMPLANT DENTISTRY HONORS PROGRAM:

M T W TH F
AM 8-9:30 Perio-pros Treatment Planning9:30-noon Implant Center Screening Exams 8-9:30 Implant Seminar9:30-noon Observation and Patient Care
PM 1-4 Observation and Patient Care 1-4 Screening Exams and Patient Care

IV SEDATION
Course Director
Dr. Chris Maller
Dr. Mort Rosenberg

Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Richard Sobera
Dr. Stu Gould
Dr John Morgan
Dr. Michael Thompson

Goal:
To offer one exceptional, interested senior dental student an intensive didactic and clinical experience in conscious sedation techniques (oral, inhalation and intravenous) meeting the criteria promulgated in the American Dental Association Guidelines for the use of conscious sedation, deep sedation and general anesthesia.

Prerequisite:
Successful completion of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).

Objectives:
Oral Sedation
Participation in the Oral Sedation Clinic in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry

Nitrous Oxide - Oxygen Sedation
Participation in the nitrous oxide-oxygen sedation program and attending nitrous Oxide-oxygen sedation certification course

Airway Management
Participation in selected general anesthesia cases in NEMC and in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Intravenous Sedation
Participation in postdoctoral intravenous sedation procedures
predoctoral sedation clinic, Fernald sedation program.

Requirements:
1. Participant to be identified by Drs. Thompson and Rosenberg.
2. Attendance:
a. 1 day/week generally Fridays
b. May be excused for externship rotation
3. Oral and written examination at end of program

Resources:
Tuition for ACLS course

ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL PATHOLOGY
Dr. Michael Kahn

Goal:
To familiarize an exceptional and motivated senior dental student with the practice of clinical and surgical oral and maxillofacial pathology with special attention to practice in an academic setting.

Objectives:
At the end of the incentive period the student should:

Be familiar with oral histology and able to render a correct histopathologic diagnosis on simple pathologic entities.
Be familiar with clinical differential diagnosis criteria and have developed the ability to identify the most commonly encountered pathologic entities of the head and neck upon clinical presentation.
Be able to assess clinical laboratory work required in aid of a clinical or histopathologic diagnosis.
Be comfortable with the most common treatment modalities used in the management of oral diseases.
Be comfortable in consulting with a patient's physician or surgeon.

Optional objectives:

Participation in an oral pathology research project leading to an abstract in the annual oral and maxillofacial pathology meeting.
Learning to critically review and discuss pathology articles.
Presentation skills in oral pathology.

Activities:

Participation in daily histopathologic sign out.
Participation in histopathologic seminars of selected cases.
Attendance at clinical consults and clinical oral pathology patients.
Attendance of tumor board at NEMC.
Independent study based on cases the student has seen.

Duration:

One to two months. If the student is interested in pursuing specialization in oral pathology after graduation, two months are advisable.

Evaluation:

Once a week, a feedback session will be held between Dr. Kahn and the student in order to assess progress, identify areas that need improvement and address questions.

ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY
Dr. Maria Papageorge

Goal:
To expose the student to complex Oral and Maxillofacial surgical concepts and procedures.

Objectives:

1. Have the student be part of the Oral Surgery team in operating room cases.
2. Have the student be involved with care of clinic patients in a more independent and advanced level than what is usually the case with predoctoral students.
3. Engage the student in advanced treatment planning sessions.
4. Have the student prepare and give presentation of specific topics in the specialty.
5. Interest the student in advanced Oral Surgery.

Duration:

This program normally runs for two to three weeks.

ORTHODONTICS
Drs. Briss and Salem

Goals:
1. To give the predoctoral student a better understanding of the case management and treatment of one orthodontic patient in full treatment.
2. To give the predoctoral student some hands-on orthodontic treatment patient experiences such as: direct banding of brackets, removing and placing arch wires, prescription writing for removable orthodontic appliances and fitting molar bands.
3. To give the predoctoral student a more in-depth knowledge of diagnosis, treatment planning, biomechanics, orthodontic literature, and interaction with other specialties.
4. To give the predoctoral student further knowledge in managing restorative/prosthodontic treatment plans that also involve orthodontic treatment.

Program:

Number of students each month: 2
Length of program: 2 months

8-9 or 10am Seminar	8-9 or 10am Seminar	8-9 or 10am Seminar	8-9 or 10am Seminar	8-9 or 10am Seminar	8-9 or 10am Seminar
9 am –12 noon	Clinic	Clinic	Clinic	Clinic	Clinic
1-4:30 pm	Clinic	Clinic	Clinic	Clinic	Clinic

Student must be present 2 1/2 days at least each week.

PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY
Dr. Anthi Tsamtsouris

Goals:

1) The student will assist faculty members and/or residents by assisting Third Year students, and any other students that are indicated, in the diagnosis and treatment planning of both new and recare pediatric patients, seen in the pediatric dental clinic. This involves patients who require periodontal, pulpal, endodontic, and orthodontic intervention. This will be during assigned Third Year rotation times, especially those times where a high number of pediatric patients are seen, or whenever the program director decides. The student will also assist and advise the rotation participants during the basic treatment (basic operative and periodontal procedures) of pediatric patients while remaining under the jurisdiction of the Pediatric Dentistry faculty.

2) The student will participate in all departmental seminars.

3) The student will participate in undertaking prevention measures with the pediatric patients, either with predoctoral or postgraduate residents, including: oral hygiene instruction, fluoride evaluation, nutritional counseling, parental counseling, and preventive diagnosis and treatment planning.

4) The student will also observe and assist residents during Operating Room procedures at New England Medical Center. During this experience, it is the desire that the student becomes accustomed with principles of pharmacology and anesthesiology of the pediatric patient. Furthermore, the student will focus on concepts of behavior management and the various avenues taken by the pediatric dentist.

5) The student will also have