title: Financing clinical dental education.
abstract: Many reports have documented the growing financial challenges faced by dental schools. This article examines the financial implications of two new models of dental education: 1) seniors spend 70 percent of their time in community clinics and practices, providing general dental care to underserved patients, and 2) schools develop patient-centered clinics where teams of faculty, residents, and senior students provide care to patients. We estimate that the average dental school will generate new net revenues of about $2.7 million per year from the community-based educational programs for senior students and about $14 million per year from patient-centered care clinics. These are upper boundary estimates and vary greatly by school. The organizational and financial challenges of moving to these new educational models are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, 260 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030, USA. bailit@nso1.uchc.edu
authors.forename: Howard L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Bailit
authors.forename: Tryfon J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Beazoglou
authors.forename: Allan J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Formicola
authors.forename: Lisa A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Tedesco
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D003740:Dental Clinics / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000191:economics*; D005179:Faculty, Dental; D005378:Financial Support; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D017145:Models, Educational; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D011231:Preceptorship; D014481:United States