What is Dental Public Health?
Dental Public Health (DPH) is the science and art of preventing and controlling dental diseases and promoting dental health through organized community efforts
American Dental Association
Why partner with Dental Public Health residents?
Collaboration Benefits for LOHPs
- Additional help
- Dedicated time (8 hrs/week= 80hrs/quarter = 325hrs in 11months)
- Opportunity for rural counties to improve their oral health programs
- Fulfilling the State's oral health strategic plan goals/objectives
- Systematic research design and data analysis
- Quality improvement opportunities
- Enhance productivity (e.g., presence in webinars, teaching opportunities, sharing experiences, attending conferences)
Collaboration Benefits for Residents
- Real life experience
- Learn from experts in the field
- Implement their knowledge
- Fulfill DPH core competencies
- Experience data collection and analysis
- Quality improvement opportunities
- Being part of the County's/State's oral health improvement strategies
- Presentation experience
Qualifications to host a Resident
- A supervisor/mentor from LOHP
- Qualifications: DDS or MPH
- Having a project or community-based program
- Meeting with the DPH Postgraduate Program Director
- Training Affiliation Agreement or Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
- Research Mentoring Agreement
- Develop research goals and objectives
- Weekly/Bi-weekly meetings with residents
- Review and feedback resident's research report
- Quarterly residents' evaluation
- Time commitment: July-May
Steps to becoming a field site:
