Transforming the Future of Oral Health Education
The Dugoni School of Dentistry is positioning itself to move to even higher levels of prominence as a leader among academic dental institutions. Our living strategic plan provides the framework as we meet the challenges and opportunities that present themselves in today’s rapidly changing educational and healthcare environment. Since we began implementation of the Strategic Plan in 2018, we have made many advances toward Transforming the Future of Oral Health Education. Below are five strategic priority areas and a few examples of steps being taken to support these goals:
- Improving Experiences and Outcomes While Lowering the Costs of Healthcare Education
- Leveraging endowments to recruit and retain more highly qualified faculty
- Growth of endowments to support student scholarships
- Securing grants to support research and community outreach
- Prepare Confident, Competent Oral Healthcare Providers for Current and Future Practice Models
- Developing opportunities for inter-professional education and inter-professional practice
- Transition to a new Electronic Health Record to provide better and more comprehensive patient care
- Create new opportunities for students to participate patient care through work with community health partners
- Creation of opportunities to provide oral health care across a spectrum of delivery models right on our own campus
- Embrace Advances in Medicine and Dentistry to Create a Dynamic and Visionary Curriculum
- Curricular reform to include new content and to foster greater collaboration across disciplines
- Leveraging translational research in innovative areas such as sleep medicine, AI and digital dentistry that will inform future curriculum and learning
- Retain, Recruit, Support and Develop Diverse Faculty and Staff with Demonstrated Expertise to Improve Clinical Outcomes and Student Education
- Faculty loan repayment programs to attract and retain general dentistry, hygiene and pediatric faculty to pursue academia and develop new programs to take us into the future
- Establishing opportunities for advanced training and education for faculty and staff in collaboration with other University programs.
- Expand the Role of the Dugoni School as a Community Partner in Health and Wellness
- Secured the support of community health partners for successful grant applications that support research, facilities, patient care, student support and improve access to care and dental education.
- Ongoing engagement with our extensive alumni network for their ongoing support of our people and programs in so many ways including participation in fundraising, research mentorship, community and global outreach, teaching and so much more.
