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08 SES 11, Innovative Teaching-Learning Strategies within Health Education
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Contribution
The worlds of education and work are moving closer to each other. The integration of formal and informal learning is required to develop a variety of expertise needed to respond to the changes taking place in working life (Tynjälä 2008). In the future, oral health promotion and predictive skills are important competences for dental hygienist students that work with clients with special needs for example the old people. Dental hygienist curricula, which include clinical practice in working with clients with special needs (Dehaitem et.al. 2008), and an enriched environment of learning and care (Brown et.al. 2008) are possibilities to achieve these competences in education.
The objective of this paper is to describe the learning experiences of undergraduate dental hygienist students at a mobile oral health care unit. The aim was to generate knowledge to develop clinical practice undertaken by students.
This paper deals with the Suupirssi (Mouth Car) project. The purpose of this project was to develop oral health care services for people in rural areas, division of work to ensure rapid access to oral health care, clinical practice for dental hygienist students and the services of the dental clinic in cooperation with those working in the field. First, the project produced a mobile oral health unit (Suupirssi). Access to services is eased by bringing the services to customers through a mobile oral health care unit, and by disseminating modes and models of operation throughout the entire province. The aims of the service are to offer customer-oriented oral health care and to improve oral self care skills among customers. The service is intended for oral health care customers living in rural areas in eastern Finland and for oral health care organisations throughout the province. Old people are the most important target group in the project.
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References
Brown, J., Nolan, M., Davies, S., Nolan, J. & Keady, J. (2008) Transforming students’ views of gerontological nursing: Realising the potential of “enriched” environments of learning and care: A multi-method longitudinal study. International Journal of Nursing Studies 45: 1214-1232. Dehaitem , M.J., Ridley, K., Wendy, M.S., Kerschbaum, W.E. & Inglehart, M.R. (2008) Dental hygiene education about patients with special needs: a survey of U.S. programs. Journal of Dental Education 72: 1010-1019. Tynjälä, P. (2008) Perspectives into learning at the workplace. Educational Research Review 3: 130-154.
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