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For the past 5 years a top ranking inadequacy in dental education, according to recent graduates from dental schools nationwide, has been providing students with skill, knowledge and experience in an environment that best prepares them for practice "in the real world". NYUCD has taken this problem to heart and embarked on several initiatives to address this inadequacy, including partnership with the Levin Group in evaluating and improving our clinical operations, regular Group Practice operational meetings and an expansion of our curriculum in practice management. To further achieve this goal, with particular emphasis on readying you for productive clinical practice, we will launch a new Practice Model program for the D3 and D4 classes beginning the next academic year. Included in the model will be production goals/requirements and rewards, team evaluations and other key operational elements employed in successful dental practices. A project team including representation of faculty, students and staff has been assembled to work out the details. They will be communicating directly with you through individual and group meetings or focus groups as further input is needed and decisions are made on the program content. Your constructive participation is valued and welcomed.
Louisiana State University School of Dentistry launched a similar program last year with great success, and it is well supported by their students. A paper describing their experience was recently published in the Journal of Dental Education and is available to you on the Academic Intranet at http://www.nyu.edu/dental/intranet/clinicaffairs/jdestudentproduction.pdf. We urge you all to read the paper and consider its benefits to the students at NYUCD. If you cannot open or download the paper, ask someone in your department to help - the paper will provide insight into how the program impacted students and faculty. The NYUCD program will be tailored to fit our unique circumstances and is an important step in preparing you for a very successful practice.
Thank you.
Warren Scherer, D.D.S.
Chair,General Dentistry and Management Sciences
David Sirois, D.M.D., Ph.D.
Head, Division of Reconstructive and Comprehensive Care
A student that put it in simpilar terms
earlier this evening an email was sent to the whole school regarding a new program at nyucd. unfortunately, it was from dr. eisenberg (no offense to our director of informatics) so i doubt anyone paid much heed, thinking it was another virus update. however, it was something very important, especially for our class. it was a letter from dr. sirois and dr. scherer (the chair of all the general dentistry clinics) unveiling a new program that will be implemented next year. it is a new model of clinic operation based on a very successful pilot program at the louisiana state university school of dentistry. it is based on the idea that, since most of us will be going into private practice, our clinical experiences here at dental school should be more practice oriented. following from this, is a model including production goals as well as clinical requirements (in the lsu program, it was a minimum of $16,000 per student per year) along with an incentive system for those students who are ahead of their individual goals (again, in the lsu program, the rewards included more control over your clinic schedule, extra days off, and parking spots) and for clinics which, as a team are ahead of their goals (lsu had lunches with the dean, and public recognition of the team's success). additionally, built in to this practice model is an evaluation system, where students evaluate the other students in their clinic, as well as the faculty in their clinic, for their performance and teamwork. i know that change around here is met with a lot of resistance and criticism. and there are very likely people who will look at this proposal and judge it as a way simply for the school to make more money. but it is an amazing opportunity for us, as students, to actually practice dentistry in a way that is meaningful to the rest of our careers. look at the facts from the lsu study: the average number of chair visits in one year increased by 226, which translated to 7500 additional dollars per student. it is my opinion that learning how to increase our patient flow, set and acheive realistic goals, and work with other dentists in a practice setting will ultimately make us more efficient, more successful, and better prepared dentists. thank you.
Louisiana State University School of Dentistry launched a similar program last year with great success, and it is well supported by their students. A paper describing their experience was recently published in the Journal of Dental Education and is available to you on the Academic Intranet at http://www.nyu.edu/dental/intranet/clinicaffairs/jdestudentproduction.pdf. We urge you all to read the paper and consider its benefits to the students at NYUCD. If you cannot open or download the paper, ask someone in your department to help - the paper will provide insight into how the program impacted students and faculty. The NYUCD program will be tailored to fit our unique circumstances and is an important step in preparing you for a very successful practice.
Thank you.
Warren Scherer, D.D.S.
Chair,General Dentistry and Management Sciences
David Sirois, D.M.D., Ph.D.
Head, Division of Reconstructive and Comprehensive Care
A student that put it in simpilar terms
earlier this evening an email was sent to the whole school regarding a new program at nyucd. unfortunately, it was from dr. eisenberg (no offense to our director of informatics) so i doubt anyone paid much heed, thinking it was another virus update. however, it was something very important, especially for our class. it was a letter from dr. sirois and dr. scherer (the chair of all the general dentistry clinics) unveiling a new program that will be implemented next year. it is a new model of clinic operation based on a very successful pilot program at the louisiana state university school of dentistry. it is based on the idea that, since most of us will be going into private practice, our clinical experiences here at dental school should be more practice oriented. following from this, is a model including production goals as well as clinical requirements (in the lsu program, it was a minimum of $16,000 per student per year) along with an incentive system for those students who are ahead of their individual goals (again, in the lsu program, the rewards included more control over your clinic schedule, extra days off, and parking spots) and for clinics which, as a team are ahead of their goals (lsu had lunches with the dean, and public recognition of the team's success). additionally, built in to this practice model is an evaluation system, where students evaluate the other students in their clinic, as well as the faculty in their clinic, for their performance and teamwork. i know that change around here is met with a lot of resistance and criticism. and there are very likely people who will look at this proposal and judge it as a way simply for the school to make more money. but it is an amazing opportunity for us, as students, to actually practice dentistry in a way that is meaningful to the rest of our careers. look at the facts from the lsu study: the average number of chair visits in one year increased by 226, which translated to 7500 additional dollars per student. it is my opinion that learning how to increase our patient flow, set and acheive realistic goals, and work with other dentists in a practice setting will ultimately make us more efficient, more successful, and better prepared dentists. thank you.