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G o a l O n e Develop and Sustain a Learner-Centered EducationalEnvironmentG o a l O n e Develop and Sustain a Learner-Centered EducationalEnvironmentDual-Degree Student Keeps Research AliveOur VisionUFCD D.M.D./Ph.D. student KyuLim Lee isone example of why the future of dentistry isso bright. Lee arrived at UFCD in 2013 witha broad interest in oral health, sparked byher undergraduate degree in food scienceand human nutrition from the UF College ofAgricultural and Life Sciences with an emphasison nutritional sciences.Lee knows that although scientific discoverytakes time and diligence, it is highly worthwhile.“My experience has taught me an importantaspect of research: a cure for a disease is notdiscovered overnight. The discoveries resultfrom years of incremental research,” she said.After winning first place in the 2014 AmericanAssociation for Dental Research Unilever HattonCompetition, she advanced to the InternationalAssociation for Dental Research’s version laterthe same year, winning second place in theglobal contest. And in a first for UFCD, Lee wasselected as the 2016-2017 Gert Quigley Fellow,giving her the opportunity to spend six weeks atthe American Association for Dental Research,or AADR, headquarters as well as a yearlongappointment to the AADR Government AffairsCommittee.“Research is the future of dentistryand advocating the importanceof continuous funding for dentalresearch is very important,” Lee said.Rather than consider the opportunity adry role, Lee saw the position as critical toadvancing academic dentistry through policyand engagement with funding agencies. As afull voting member of the committee, Lee andother fellows helped to craft policy as it relatesto the federal budget and other legislativeand regulatory activities important to dentalresearch.“Research is the future of dentistry andadvocating the importance of continuousfunding for dental research is very important,”she said.Excellent education, guided by and grounded in sound scientific evidence, develops students for success asskilled professionals and effective leaders.Our students, residents and faculty participate in interdisciplinary learning and research that benefits thecollege and its community of patients, and is guided by well-rounded curricula that produces professionalsskillful in the art and science of dentistry. We will employ innovative, evidence-based educational models toprepare our students and residents for success and continued effectiveness in a rapidly changing health careenvironment.Objectives1-1 Systematically review and revise thecurriculum across DMD and other programs topromote excellence and serve as a model forinnovative dental education.Incorporating the results of pilot tests, dentaleducation literature and best practices, implementa streamlined, contemporary curriculum in theDMD and advanced dental education programs ina learner-centered, humanistic environment.Implementation Strategies4 Eliminate redundancy in the curriculum toallow time for expanded learning opportunitiesin additional areas such as research, publichealth and emerging technologies.4Expand blended learning approaches, case-based learning, evidence-based practice andactive learning throughout the curriculum.4Expand integration of biomedical, clinical andbehavioral sciences in the curriculum.4Continue to identify and assess furthercurricular opportunities such as increasedformative assessments that support studentcentered learning, community-based learningand interprofessional education.1-2 Transition the UFCD curriculum toward awhole-patient care model.Increasing curricular focus on comprehensiveand coordinated patient care while supportingmastery of individual procedures offers significantopportunities for improved student learning andbetter patient care. Curricular reforms will betterintegrate basic and clinical science, support criticalthinking, provide earlier clinical experiences,and optimize the impact of biomedical advancesthrough faster translation of research findings intoclinical care.Implementation Strategies4Explore centralized curriculum-managementstrategies in ways that will better integratecurricular content, increase efficiency andfacilitate transdisciplinary patient-centered care.4Incorporate additional experiential, case-basedand small-group learning relevant to variouspatient populations, especially children, seniorsand those with diverse needs and backgrounds.4Adopt and support measures of effectivenessthat include oral-health-related quality of lifeand patient outcomes.1-3Expand coordinated and meaningfulinterprofessional educational experiences.Providing patient care in a collaborative,integrated team environment is the hallmark ofinterprofessional education, and it ensures thatUFCD students and residents acquire knowledgeand skills to work within this modern landscape.The expected results are improved health outcomescoupled with the best available care supported byevidence. This shift is especially important given theaging of the U.S. population and a growing needto treat a broad range of patients diverse in age,medical risk and cultural background.Implementation Strategies4Increase the number of collaborations andlearning opportunities between UFCD andother UF health disciplines.

G o a l O n e Develop and Sustain a Learner-Centered EducationalEnvironment4Maximize the use of technology to forge1-5 Enhance the integration of researchinto predoctoral and graduate educationalprogramming.4Recruit a broad range of health careNew insights and knowledge from research informwhat we teach and how we provide care. UFCDcurrently ranks fifth among U.S. dental schools forNIH funding and has ranked in the top 10 for thepast 15 years. Amid the rich research environmentprovided throughout the UF Academic HealthCenter, UFCD trainees and faculty have access tocutting-edge technologies and interdisciplinarycollaborations that can revolutionize preventionand management of oral diseases. These strengthsposition us as a world leader in oral healthresearch.connections between UFCD students, residentsand staff, as well as with other healthprofessionals.professionals outside of dentistry to participatewith trainees and faculty in UFCD clinics.4Promote earlier DMD student participation inclinical care.4Streamline the referral process for care andstrengthen the quality improvement process formonitoring interdisciplinary care.4Evaluate workforce models of team approachesto patient-centered care.1-4Incorporate technology to provide studentsand residents with broader learning experiences.Advances in educational technology have thepotential to expand curricular flexibility and tocustomize instruction for individual learningstyles. Online courses, apps, simulation and otherapproaches can be used to enhance learningas well as ensure that trainees are comfortablewith the use of new technologies in care and inresearch.Implementation Strategies4Analyze current curricula to identify potentialareas amenable to online instruction, includingpre-clinical coursework, using virtual patients,and enabling more digital imaging across allcare centers and graduate programs.4Expand UFCD online learning opportunitiesfor existing and prospective students,community locations, dental professionals andauxiliaries.4Make existing resources accessible for researchuse, including migrating axiUm, EPIC and othersystems to searchable databases.4Consider use of various technologies toenhance education and point-of-care service.G o a l O n e Develop and Sustain a Learner-Centered EducationalEnvironmentPhysical Therapy MeetsDentistry in InterprofessionalEducationThe value of interprofessional research and education is atan all-time high in today’s academic climate. Yet, logisticalchallenges—such as meeting curricular and schedulingrequirements—can make it difficult to achieve in the realworld.UF Health is unusually suited to creating valuableinterprofessional opportunities for its students since all sixhealth colleges are co-located on the Gainesville campus. Inaddition, all of the major research centers, institutes and mostclinical enterprises are located within a half-mile radius of oneanother, and are adjacent to the main UF campus.Implementation Strategies4Develop a process for students to engage inresearch activities across all four years of theDMD curriculum.4Expand UFCD faculty representation and activeengagement with the UF Graduate Program inBiomedical Sciences.4Continue to support and enhance a systemfor effective and timely communicationregarding ongoing research interests andactivities of faculty and trainees, both within andbeyond the UFCD in-house researchcommunity.4Involve research faculty and trainees incurricular revisions to allow greater flexibilityfor students to pursue dental and educationalresearch.4Require evidence-based approaches in allclinical teaching.4Employ axiUm and other data-scienceapproaches to facilitate longitudinal cohortstudies and health-data mining for qualityassurance.UF Health is unusuallysuited to creatingvaluable interprofessionalopportunities for its studentssince all six health collegesare co-located on theGainesville campus.The relatively new “Making Safe Moves” course is a greatexample of an interprofessional offering that is a win-winopportunity for UF dental and physical therapy students.Making Safe Moves is an interactive, practical, peer-learningcurriculum in which physical therapy students teach dentalstudents how to safely transfer patients with assistive devicesinto and out of a dental chair.In 2016, a peer-reviewed article in Collaborative Healthcare,a publication of the Jefferson Center for InterprofessionalEducation, detailed the hour and a half “Making Safe Moves”course.Thought to be the first of its kind in the country and theonly of its kind at UF, the one-on-one interactive experiencemeets curricular objectives for both the dental and physicaltherapy groups and addresses some of the barriers tointerprofessional education.Collectively, physical therapy and dental students whotook the initial course agreed that learning how to performtransfers, appropriate body mechanics, and how to addressneeds for those with mobility deficits were very important.

G o a l T w o Provide Excellent Oral Health Care Grounded inEvidenceOur VisionThe highest quality oral health care is evidence-based and patient-centered, meeting the needs of our highlydiverse community of patients.UFCD has a longstanding reputation as the primary source for top-quality, affordable oral health services toresidents of Gainesville and surrounding areas, as well as in other Florida communities via our communitybased dental centers. As a premier U.S. dental school with residency training in every specialty recognizedby the American Dental Association, UFCD will strive to become a top destination for advanced or specialtycare in all aspects of oral health care.Objectives2-1. Develop a robust, patient-centeredinterprofessional care model with integrated dentaland medical management.In agreement with UFCD’s commitment to educatefuture dentists through a whole-patient lens thatintegrates dental and medical care, we will ensurethat our patients remain at the center of the careprocess — from making an initial appointment toparticipating in care through a comprehensive andindividualized treatment plan. Implementing digitaldentistry wherever possible can improve patientexperiences and help increase practice efficiency.Implementation Strategies4Create and maintain customer-service standardsand provide training and support to integrate aculture of service in every aspect of our work.4Establish a patient access center to handlephone and online appointment requests,cancellations and patient requests.4Ensure prompt replies and feedback to referringdental and medical providers with standardoperating procedures facilitated by the use ofinformation technology.4Document and follow evidence-basedguidelines for patient-care management at thepoint of care.4Optimize standards for patient safety, trackingof clinical adverse events, and quality assurancethrough efficient and effective use ofinformation technology.4Develop and adopt patient-satisfactionmeasures that assess health and patientcentered outcomes.2-2. Expand the UFCD clinical footprint to UFHealth clinical sites and other locations.A broader UCFD patient community will benefitus in various ways. UF Health patients will benefitfrom comprehensive health care that includes oralhealth. UFCD students will develop a better overallunderstanding of comprehensive dental carethrough access to a range of learning experiences.Our faculty will engage more fully throughincreased interactions with UF Health medicalproviders. The resulting increase in numbersand types of patients will enrich students’and residents’ experiences. Conversely, anincreased patient pool can enhance the college’seducational, research and clinical care.Implementation Strategies4Expand availability of clinical care to other partsof Florida.4Increase marketing efforts throughout the UFHealth community including to faculty, students,staff and patients.4Broaden existing UFCD clinical expertise toprovide a fuller range of consultation topredoctoral and advanced education clinics.4Attract a broader patient population to supportresidents’ and students’ educational needs.G o a l T w o Provide Excellent Oral Health Care Grounded inEvidenceGentle Dental Care for Kids with Special NeedsLeda Mugayar, D.D.S., recalls when anautistic boy she was treating had troublepronouncing her name.“Leda,’’ she said, and he gave her a lookof confusion. She tried “Mugayar,’’ andgot the same response. Then he lookedat her and came up with a name of hisown.“OK, Dr. Spaghetti.”Sitting in the UFCD pediatric dentalclinic, Mugayar laughs at the memory,holding her straight blonde hair thathad reminded the boy of pasta. Thereare so many memorable patients andwonderful stories like that one, she says,that make it easy to love her job.Mugayar is a pediatric dentist, and shesaid her passion is treating children withspecial needs. “I don’t do this for me,”she said. “I do this for the children.Because they are the ones that we arehere for.”She said her experience with specialneeds patients pushed her toward thepreventive side of dentistry, becausethere’s so much you do if you workahead of the clock. For babies, thatmeans working with their mothers whenthey are pregnant. And for infants,just being desensitized to the dentalvisit itself is an effective way to beginprevention of cavities.Mugayar was born and raised in Brazil,where she graduated from the Universityof Campinas School of Dentistry. Shereceived pediatric dentistry training inBrazil before she moved to Japan withher son for postgraduate training. Later,they moved to Sydney, Australia, where“I don’t do this for me,” she said. “I do thisfor the children. Because they are theones that we are here for.”she became the head of Westmead Hospital’s special-needsdentistry department. She then completed a master’s degree inpreventive dentistry and community health at the University ofCalifornia at San Francisco.Since 2011, she has been on the faculty at UFCD, where shecontinues to work to expand care for children with special needs.

G o a l T w o Provide Excellent Oral Health Care Grounded inEvidenceGoal ThreeSupport & Advance Preeminent Basic, Clinical,Translational and Population-Based Research2-3.Our VisionEnsure availability and quality of oral healthcare for underserved communities in Florida.As Florida’s only state-supported dental school, theUFCD commitment to underserved populationsis deeply ingrained within our institutionalfabric. We will continue to provide high-qualitycomprehensive care to people throughout thestate through UFCD clinics and our communitypartners. In addition to providing reduced-fee carein student clinics, UFCD will sustain its support forseveral community-outreach programs that provideoral health education, screening, prevention anddental services to individuals including those withspecial needs.Implementation Strategies4Bolster support of the UF Statewide Network forA vibrant research enterprise maintains the spirit of discovery that brings to life intellectual curiosity andenhances clinical acumen afforded through scholarship.4Support and encourage service learning inA strong research portfolio is a hallmark of UFCD’s accomplishments, reputation and success. A thrivingresearch environment ensures that students, residents and faculty remain at the leading edge of biomedicalknowledge and practice. Through research, we assure that patient-care is optimally effective.4Continue to partner with UF Health toObjectives3-1. Enhance recruitment and retention ofCommunity Oral Health through developmentof partnerships.communities through outreach programs andpublic health rotations to benefit underservedpeople and enrich student experiences andeducation.participate in the UF Student Health ProfessionsEducation Program to increase opportunitiesfor students underrepresented in the health andresearch workforce.4Prioritize infant oral health education andprevention strategies, and increase access tocare for patients with special needs incollaboration with UF Health pediatric medicinespecialties.Annual Service Trip Provides Dental Home forBahaman ChildrenAndros is the largest island in the Bahamas andthe fifth-largest island in the Caribbean, butnot a single dentist lives there to provide carefor residents and visitors. The UFCD BahamasService Trip, first launched in 2012, providesa much-needed “dental home” for Androschildren, providing free dental care in clinics setup in school classrooms with stations for oralhygiene education, prevention, extractions andrestorative procedures.Since 2012, this annual service trip hasprovided care for children who live onthe largest island in the Bahamas.The service trip was created by former UFCDendodontic resident and native BahamanDr. Ericka Bennett who teamed with Dr. AbiAdewumi, a pediatric dentistry UFCD facultymember and longtime supporter of dentalmission trips. Adewumi has since led the effort,selecting a group of dental students andstudent leaders to organize the annual trip. Thetrip typically includes DMD students, faculty,and volunteer dentists and dental assistants.Each year they provide care for hundreds of theisland’s children.exemplary faculty to advance the researchenterprise.A solid, talented faculty base is essential forsustaining our research program at a high level. Wewill continue to support and expand opportunitiesfor faculty to conduct research to maintain astrong evidence-based curriculum and clinical careprogram. Strengthening UFCD’s translational andclinical research enterprise is a focus.Implementation Strategies4Conduct strategic recruitment and capitalize onUF campus-wide initiatives to attain a criticalmass of productive, research-intensive facultyand clinical researchers.4Establish a UFCD research-resource portal toprovide current information on researchresources, faculty expertise/interests and corefacilities; and establish appropriate links withother such portals such as UF Health Bridge.4Review and enhance efforts that provide timeand resources for clinical faculty to conductresearch.portfolio and provide additional opportunitiesfor faculty, students and residents to engage inmeaningful research and address a wide range ofpublic health needs. Greater engagement with theUF Health environment could create new programsfor basic, translational and clinical research—andfor integrative approaches.Implementation Strategies4Enrich research programs in areas of historicalstrength, such as biomaterial scien

Nov 18, 2018 · The University of Florida College of Dentistry (UFCD) is a leader in education, clinical care and research. We are proud to be a pillar of the local Gainesville community and a leader in these three areas — regionally, nationally and globally. We are also unique: UFCD is one of only three U.S. den