title: Developing a group practice comprehensive care education curriculum.
abstract: In fall 2002 the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry implemented a Group Practice Comprehensive Care Clinical Education Curriculum. The primary responsibility for patient care has shifted in this comprehensive care curriculum from the students to the faculty and staff. Students have a primary responsibility for learning. This competency-based education curriculum utilizes a variety of student evaluation methods including self-evaluation, OSCE, and portfolio to verify competence. Formative evaluation methods are utilized in daily assessment of student performance. On-time graduation rates have increased from 60-70 percent to 96 percent, and regional board first-time pass rates have been maintained at 90+ percent. Overall predoctoral clinical productivity in the first full year of the program has increased by over 300,000 dollars.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 60546, USA.
authors.forename: Frank W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Licari
authors.forename: G William
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Knight
mesh_terms: D002641:Chicago; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003190:Comprehensive Dental Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D003479:Curriculum; D003740:Dental Clinics / Q000458:organization & administration; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006124:Group Practice, Dental; D006801:Humans