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This is an opportunity for you to join content expert Darlene Jones, RDH, BS, MPA, and colleagues to discuss external clinic rotation sites for dental hygiene students. This course will cover how to identify rotation or “out of building sites”, writing agreements for aligning stakeholders, overcoming barriers, and sharing the many benefits of community clinical education. The course will also touch on CODA as an incentive for implementing community clinical education experiences for your dental hygiene students.

Objectives:

• Identify “out of the building sites”
• Explain some of the common definitions of community clinical education.
• Describe the barriers to creating and maintaining community clinical education experiences
• Describe benefits of community clinical education experiences

Educators Platform Masterminds are dynamic two-hour virtual sessions building on each other’s challenges, ideas and successes in the presence of a content expert. Mastermind sessions are thoughtfully facilitated to create an environment for like-minded colleagues to share and learn from one another with the goal of collective professional growth and development. Sessions are uniquely tailored to the needs of participants. Those attending will have the opportunity to create strong connections with other participants to last a whole career.

More about our content expert: Darlene Jones is a current faculty member at the University of Michigan with numerous years of teaching Special Needs. She receives high acclaim from her students and colleagues. Ms. Jones enjoys practicing primarily in community settings, and her passions include expanding the use of dental hygiene services for underserved populations as well as mentoring students during their community-based research projects.

Attendees of Educators Platform Mastermind sessions will earn 2 CEU in Educational Methods.