OHD Releases New Report about Cross-Cultural Education in Utah's Oral Health Schools

OHD released findings of a survey of local oral health institutions. OHD surveyed dental residency programs, dental schools, dental hygiene schools, and dental assisting schools in an effort to understand cross-cultural training offered to future oral health professionals.

For survey respondents, the key findings include:

• The majority of institutions address cross-cultural issues either in the classroom and/or in an extracurricular setting.
• The largest motivator to offer cross-cultural training to students is a diverse patient population.
• The largest overall barrier to providing additional cross-cultural training is competing curricular time.
• Institutions with longer programs tend to offer more cross-cultural opportunities and rate their level of cross-cultural competence higher.

OHD produced this report as a second installment in a series of reports regarding oral health in Utah. Find OHD published reports on the Data and Reports page of the OHD website.