Challenges of Incivility in Dental Practice and Education.

Professional collaboration is a key component of patient care and a source of fulfilment for oral health care providers. However, reports of incivility in employment as well as education are increasing impacting individuals in all settings including patients. Uncivil behavior implies a disregard for others and creates an atmosphere of disrespect, conflict, and stress.

EDUCATING THE DEVELOPING DENTAL STUDENT IN ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM.

Ethics education has been a required part of accreditation standards for dental and dental hygiene programs since the 19lJs. The dominant approach uses a combination of lectures and small, case-based seminars to teach ethical principles and provide practice in decision-making procedures to reason through dilemmas where there are several "right" ways to act. Detail is provided about three such programs.

Bordetella species in children with cystic fibrosis: what do we know? The role in acute exacerbations and chronic course.

Despite vaccination, pertussis is still endemic in the Netherlands. A literature search was performed to verify what is known about the role of Bordetella species in children with cystic fibrosis, with regard to the incidence of Bordetella infections, the involvement in pulmonary exacerbations and the influence on chronic course. Little is known about the frequency of Bordetella infections and the involvement of Bordetella species both in relation to the chronic course of cystic fibrosis and to pulmonary exacerbations.

Educating the public about research funded by the National Institutes of Health using a partnership between an academic medical center and community-based science museum.

The NIH roadmap has among its goals, to promote studies designed to improve public understanding of biomedical and behavioral science, and to develop strategies for promoting collaborations between scientists and communities toward improving the public's health. Here, we report findings on the impact of a partnership between the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) designed to inform the public about health research being conducted in Oregon, which was linked to a 17-week traveling exhibition of BodyWorlds3. Measures included the public's understanding of health knowledge, attitudes, intended health behaviors, and visitor experience in their interactions with OHSU experts/volunteers, which were collected using exit surveys administered verbally.