Virginia Commonwealth University Henrico, Virginia
First-year dental hygiene students practice instrumentation throughout their first-semester preclinical course. We observed that students quickly became tired or bored of practicing the same instruments repeatedly on a single classmate for 90 minutes at a time. In an effort to engage students, we created Instrumentation Speed Dating, a station rotation activity. Student clinicians treated a series of student patients for a set time to practice an instrument in a specific area of the mouth. Interacting with multiple student patients enables student clinicians to learn from a variety of perspectives and enjoy learning instrumentation through active learning.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this session attendees will be able to:
Analyze the preferred learning styles and attention spans of millennials and Gen Z.
Discuss learning strategies that benefit different attention span levels and generations.
Identify enjoyable ways for students to refine instrumentation skills.
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