Critical Thinking
Competency Domain 3 - Critical Thinking
3.1 Evaluate and integrate emerging trends in health care and determines their value in
dental hygiene practice.
- Trends in health care
- Health care policy
- Economic principles of health care delivery
- Health care organization and delivery models
- Quality assessment and quality assurance
- Demographics of the oral health care relationships
- Relationship of systemic health to oral health and disease
- Impact of political and social climate on health care delivery
- Critically evaluates health care literature
- Critically evaluates sales and continuing education presentations
3.2 Utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Application of scientific method to clinical problem-solving
- Evidence-based delivery of oral health care
- Clinical reasoning skills
- Diagnostic skills
- Treatment planning
- Self-assessment
- Reading comprehension
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Computer literacy
- Utilization of current information systems to access medical/dental databases/ information
3.3 Evaluate and integrate best research outcomes with clinical expertise and patient
values for evidence-based practice.
- Application of scientific method to clinical problem-solving
- Evidence-based delivery of oral health care
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Cultural competence
- Communication skills, verbal and written
- Reading comprehension
- Ethics
- Statistics literacy
- Computer literacy
- Utilization of current information systems to access medical/dental/databases/information • Epidemiological methods
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