title: Optimal student-patient assignment in dental education.
abstract: This paper presents a constrained optimization model for the assignment of patients to dental students in a dental school clinic. Issues of efficiency, educational requirements, facility constraints, faculty constraints, and continuity of care are addressed in the model. A test problem and solution are used to illustrate the managerial impact of the model.
mesh_terms: D004497:Education, Dental; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010361:Patients