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ArticleJournal of dental education2025

From dialogue to action: Assessing best practices and actionable steps for oral health professions education clinical and learning environments.

Carlos S Smith, Shelvia English, Ryan L Quock, Steven Krzanowski

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Article in Journal of dental education, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

4 authors.

Carlos S SmithDepartment of Dental Public Health and Policy, VCU School of Dentistry, Richmond, Virginia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-8515
Shelvia EnglishOffice of Access, Diversity and Inclusion, American Dental Education Association, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Ryan L QuockDepartment of Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics, University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
Steven KrzanowskiEquity, Diversity, Inclusion & Justice, Nonprofit HR, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) embarked upon a path to broadly assess the clinical and learning environments across dental school and allied oral health programs. Assessing clinical learning environments has provided an important opportunity for gaining feedback from learners and team members about their experiences, responding to their needs on an intentional basis and forming context-specific understanding of and evidence for the impact of curriculum, pedagogical, and even patient care practices. This article presents key highlights of the overall usefulness of climate studies across higher education, corporate environments and health professions education. Moving from dialogue to action, it presents clear recommendations for moving forward and maximizing change efforts toward optimally inclusive, equitable, and ethically-centered oral health professions education clinical and learning environments.

Indexed as

Education, DentalLearningOral HealthCurriculumHumansUnited Statesacademic climate studybelongingcampus climate studycultural climate studyculturedentaldiversityeducationequityhumanistic environmentinclusionprofessionalism

Identifiers

PMID40422323
PMCPMC12108220

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