Implementing Standardized Patient Caregivers to Practice Difficult Conversations in a Pediatric Dentistry Course.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Standardized patient (SP) methodology has been used in health professional education to help students develop communication, deeper diagnostic reasoning, and critical thinking skills. Few examples demonstrate the use of SPs to practice difficult conversations with pediatric caregivers in the pediatric dentistry literature. The objective of this educational activity was to describe the implementation of three SPs in a pediatric dentistry course for second-year dental students.

Methods

We developed three SP encounters covering interactions with caregivers of an infant with severe early childhood caries, an adolescent on the path to gender affirmation, and a child with autism and dental caries whose caregiver was resistant to fluoride- and silver-containing dental

SUBMITTER: Meyer BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8720916 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature