Faculty Mini-Retreat Dec 14: Challenges, Changes, & Opportunities at BCD

Faculty Development: Faculty Mini-Retreat For Goodness’ Sake: Challenges, Changes and Opportunities at BCD Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon Room 605Â
This mini - retreat will address the challenges  of teaching in a diverse environment; describe changes  in both the continuing education process and the Faculty Code of Conduct document; and identify opportunities for improvement in teaching.  A major focus of the retreat will include cultural competency training. The successful… Show more delivery of meaningful, acceptable, accessible and effective oral health care to all patients requires a deeper understanding of each patient’s frame of reference. This becomes more important as the ethnic minority populations within the United States are increasing in size. The Commission on Dental Accreditation recognizes the role of cultural competence in health care and refers to it as having the ability to provide care to patients with diverse backgrounds, values, beliefs and behaviors, including tailoring delivery to meet patients’ social, cultural, and linguistic needs. Likewise, culturally competent student-faculty interactions are an important aspect of teaching effectiveness. All faculty, clinical and basic science, are asked to register and  attend. Clinical faculty will be awarded two (2) hours of CE for participation in the cultural competency presentation.Â
Course Information:
Date:Â December 14, 2012
Location:Â Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas
Presenters:Â Dr. Lavern Holyfield and Dr. Barbara Miller
CE Credits:Â 2 hours of Continuing Education credits provided
AGD Codes:Â 555 Ethics and 149 Multidisciplinary Topics
AGD Sponsor Code: 0010
Course Objectives:Â Â At the end of this two-hour workshop, participants will be able to: Â
Appreciate the influence of certain attitudes and interactions on treatment outcomes;Â
Explain the impact of demographics on health disparities and the relevance of cultural competence and linguistic competence in reducing health disparities;
Describe the role of cultural beliefs and perceptions in negotiating and rendering patient-centered care; andÂ
Value the impact of personal preferences and beliefs on health care.
Course Presenters:
Lavern Holyfield, D.D.S.  is a graduate of Baylor College of Dentistry. After more than twenty years as a solo practitioner, she returned to Texas A & M Health Science Center – Baylor College of Dentistry (HSC-BCD) and currently serves as Director of Faculty Development. Â
Dr. Holyfield completed diversity training with the National Coalition Building Institute in 2000. For the next eight years she was a co-presenter in diversity training for HSC-BCD students. She presented diversity training workshops at the University of Mississippi (2003 -2005) and for students in the SPEP Program. In Dr. Holyfield completed the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions (FASHP) Cultural Competency Training Program in 2007. Then, she became the leader in the development of cultural competence training at HSC-BCD and, since that time, she has served as course director and team leader for related teaching and training venues within the school.Â
Dr. Holyfield was course-director for pre-clinical preventive dentistry. She was principal investigator for a tobacco education grant for eleven years. Dr. Holyfield is a 2006 Fellow of the ADEA/ AAL Institute for Teaching and Learning and a 2008 Fellow of the ADEA Leadership Institute. Dr. Holyfield was the inaugural recipient of the ADEA/GSK/NDA/Dr. Jeanne Sinkford Award. Currently, as the 2012 ADEA/William J. Gies Foundation Education Fellowship, she is involved in research regarding cultural competence in dental education.
Barbara Miller, D.D.S., M.S., serves as the Executive Director of Recruitment & Admissions for the Texas A&M Health Science Center – Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, TX. Dr. Miller received her Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from Texas A&M University in College Station. She received her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree and Master of Science degree in Oral Biology from Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas. For 8 summers, she studied cultural issues, human rights and world religions at Oxford University in England. She has further training in non-violent conflict resolution and diversity issues.
Dr. Miller practiced general dentistry in Garland, TX before returning to the dental college to teach. She has been a faculty member at Baylor College of Dentistry for 28 years, teaching preclinical Dental Materials and Removable Prosthodontics, and clinical Operative Dentistry. She has participated in dental materials research and has authored many journal articles and abstracts. More recently, she teaches dental and dental hygiene students in Cultural Competency and Ethics Courses.
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