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ReviewMedical education online2022

Integrating Oral Health into Health Professions School Curricula.

Stephanie A Gill, Rocio B Quinonez, Mark Deutchman, Charles E Conklin, Denise Rizzolo, David Rabago, Paul Haidet, Hugh Silk

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Review in Medical education online, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Stephanie A GillFamily and Community Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0419-4063
Rocio B QuinonezOffice of Academic Affairs, University of North Carolina Adams School of Dentistry, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6795-2215
Mark DeutchmanFamily Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0383-4126
Charles E ConklinDepartment of Surgery, and Tread Director for Oral Health and Oral Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9616-5368
Denise RizzoloAssessment and Evaluation Specialist for the Physician Assistant Education Association, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0751-8879
David RabagoFaculty Development, Family and Community Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1347-3603
Paul HaidetDepartments of Medicine, Humanities, and Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7527-2065
Hugh SilkFamily Medicine and Community Health, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7360-5682
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · USCarilion Clinic · USPhysician Assistant Education Association · USUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · USUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral health is essential to human health. Conditions associated with poor oral health involve all organ systems and many major disease categories including infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, chronic pain, cancer, and mental health. Outcomes are also associated with health equity. Medical education organizations including the Association of American Medical Colleges and National Academy of Medicine recommend that oral health be part of medical education. However, oral health is not traditionally included in many medical school, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner curricula. Several challenges explain this exclusion including lack of time, expertise, and prioritization; we therefore provide suggestions for integrating oral health education into the health professions school curriculum. These recommendations offer guidance for enhancing the oral health curriculum across institutions. We include key organizational and foundational steps, strategies to link oral health with existing content, and approaches to achieve curricular sustainability.

Indexed as

Education, MedicalOral HealthCurriculumHealth OccupationsHumansSchools, Medicalhealth professions educationinterprofessional educationmedical educationoral health curriculumoral health integration

Identifiers

PMID35733361
PMCPMC9245988
OpenAlexW4283317925

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Registered trials

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