title: New leaders in dentistry: dental students.
abstract: Leadership opportunities for dental students have opened dramatically in recent decades because of the humanistic approach to education that shares responsibility for learning between students and faculty and that values mutual respect. Technology has also had an effect because it creates instant access and global communities. This new student leadership is most apparent in the American Student Dental Association (ASDA), which recently developed a White Paper on ethics, assisted in the establishment of Student Professionalism and Ethics Clubs at schools, and is developing a policy on unsupervised dental care. Students are also demonstrating leadership in research; in dual degrees that enhance teaching and policy; and in community service and outreach.
authors.affiliation: University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, USA. d_hammer@upacific.edu
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hammer
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003729:Dental Care; D018865:Dental Research; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D003813:Dentistry; D004497:Education, Dental; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D005179:Faculty, Dental; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007857:Leadership; D007858:Learning; D011231:Preceptorship; D011361:Professional Competence; D012952:Societies; D013335:Students, Dental; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States