This does not take into account the fact that 48 of the approximately 105 currently employed full-time teachers will reach the age of 65 during this period from 2015 to 2025. Through a comprehensive review of current and future needs to meet increased student enrollment, the university determined that $44.7 million was needed to renovate the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. The renovation of the facility would take place while student classes and patient care were taking place.
An overall summary of the reports generated in this feasibility study seems to indicate that in the state of Indiana there is a need for additional dentists and that we would have a sufficient number of competent applicants for the additional positions. To summarize, increasing the size of the pre-doctoral DDS program appears to be a viable option, although we face significant obstacles.
Charge to the Chairs Planning Committee
Determining dental workforce needs for the years 2015 to 2025 begins by examining the current composition of the workforce in Indiana and nationally. Assessing the dental workforce in Indiana requires examination of several related questions; the total number of providers, geographical distribution, full-time or part-time status of the providers. After four or more years, 72 percent of graduates practiced in Indiana, including 78 percent of undergraduates.
F is earned for a ratio of 1:2,601.7 The only measure defined by a government source approaches the subject by defining what is insufficient. Indiana has documented very few of the 18 counties and unknown number of geographic locations in the state that would likely qualify for this designation if agencies or individuals would take the initiative to collect the necessary data.
DDS Applicant Pool
Enrollment 9-12 Enrollment
Interestingly, the declines and increases in K-12 public school enrollments exactly mirror the declines and increases in dental school applications. K-12 enrollment in public and private schools is projected to increase by approximately 8% over the next seven years. The increase is not uniform across the country, however, as several regions and states will see sharp declines in K-12 enrollment.
This is especially true for all the states in the Northeast and several of the Mid-Atlantic states as well as Michigan and Ohio. Because applications to IUSD reflect the same pattern of ups and downs as the national pool, I believe the applicant pool will support an increase in the IUSD student body by 20-30 students per class over the next ten years. Most of the states from which we admit the majority of our nonresident students are expected to experience significant growth in their K-12 enrollment.
With the exception of Michigan, none of the states expected to experience decline are significant feeders to our DDS program. First, there is uncertainty about the number of new dental schools, perhaps as many as twelve, and their impact both on our applicant pool and on our ability to convince out-of-state applicants to matriculate at IUSD. Private schools like Midwestern in Chicago can hurt our ability to draw residents from Illinois.
The number of white high school graduates has already fallen by 1.5% and is expected to decline by 10.6% by 2016. During the same time period, the number of Asian and Hispanic high school graduates is expected to increase by 32% and 54%, respectively. Going forward, our ability to attract Asian and Hispanic applicants and Black students, whose graduation rate will increase by 3.1%, to attend IUSD will depend on our ability to build a reputation for welcoming and friendly students .
Faculty and Staff Demographics
There are several main areas of the faculty's teaching needs that must be considered. It seems clear that our current total number of faculty for our current number of students can be sufficient; however, it may be necessary to adjust the proportional distribution of faculty within categories of need. It is difficult to assign an absolute number of additional full-time faculty that may be needed to accommodate the increase in students.
To help put an absolute number on this, it might be appropriate to suggest that 5 to 10 additional full-time faculty and 10 to 15 FTE part-time faculty would be needed, but this mix is highly dependent on curriculum changes that may or may not does not take place. Some areas that provide support directly to students or provide administrative support may be affected. Bench and simulator lab support – additional students may be needed to help maintain and staff the lab during extended hours.
Building services and repairs – flexible schedules may be required to accommodate extended hours. If a technician is required to be on site during times when the clinics are open, it may be necessary to increase the number of technicians and if additional remote clinics are opened, a maintenance and repair plan will need to be implemented with additional staff or a contract with a dental repair service. In addition, if other facilities require maintenance, repair or renovation, this may require the additional deployment of personnel in this area.
Dental Education (Academic Affairs) – this area will need to be reviewed with a new Associate Dean. Library – it may be necessary to extend opening hours, which may require taking on additional students. Office of Student Affairs – additional staff may be required to service students once admitted; this includes registration, compliance, and graduation requirements.
Clinic Patient Pool
Other possibilities may need to be considered if the curriculum is changed to increase the time available in the module to a whole semester and/or the teaching of this technique to another semester or even another year (i.e. DS1 ) to move. Before we market IUSD, we need to make sure we have all of our internal processes and people (faculty, staff, and students) ready to go. We also need to look at the current patient population to see what our current market is (a good percentage of older patients who have more time and less money).
If we plan to attract another population, we must be prepared to meet their needs.
Physical Facility Requirements
Move the front left white table out of the room to allow more space at the front of the room; set up a round table and chairs for several students in small groups. WAY short of target capacity; insufficient capacity for the new class size under current conditions. There is not enough capacity for the new class size under current conditions. This would no longer be possible given the requirement to use only S116/S117 and the simultaneous needs of classes D1 and D2 for these same premises (regular 13:00 start).
An assessment of the full schedule of all programs (currently incomplete) should also be completed to determine the impact on non-DDS programs. Some of the meeting spaces currently used for clinical rounds and GLA-type sessions would support larger numbers of students, while others would not. Therefore, clinical rounds will need to be scheduled more than they are currently scheduled to allow room resources to be used outside of the 8-9am time slot.
It is also not possible to continue planning to use space on the IUPUI campus outside of the School of Dentistry. Practice: Community-based dental education provided dental educators with a vision of the potential impact of such programs on students' clinical skills and their abilities to work effectively in diverse settings with diverse populations. Another part of the questionnaire was designed to elicit information about the treatment of people with developmental disabilities.
IUPUI administrators challenge students to include at least two of the four RISE experiences – Exploring. Schweitzer Scholars projects and various community activities of the Kids’ Club and American Public Health Association Dentistry Student Chapter. Students will receive extensive preparation to improve their understanding of the context in which they will work.
Information Technology Considerations
Financial
Comparison School Report – University of Louisville
The School of Dentistry administration determined that approximately 40% of the increased tuition revenue would be allocated to bond debt reduction, while the remaining 60% would be allocated to increasing faculty and staff to meet student needs. Everyone recognized the need for physical renovation of the school and realized that the most appropriate way to raise funds for the renovation was to increase class sizes. Although the new clinical facilities are of the highest quality, the total number of chairs available (120) will be stressed once two classrooms of 120 students are available for patient care.
I had the opportunity to have lunch with three D1 students to inquire about their experiences as members of the first class of 120 students. Students say that they were aware of the difficulty in attracting new faculty to the school. Students said they understood that this was a time of transition and that they were willing to accommodate the needs of the faculty and administration.
Additionally, the increase in student numbers would expand the school's ability to attract and accept the number of patients needed to provide appropriate student instruction. A recent audit of the number of patients assigned to older students in one clinic found that this number ranged from ~35-65 patients. Additionally, additional screening space would need to be identified so that other uses of the clinic (technique, OSCE by Dr. Stuart.
Schaaf when he surveyed some of the Comprehensive Care clinicians and the rest (5, 6 and 7) were developed by Dr. VISION - To be one of the best dental schools (in the US) for the 21st century. Being a highly specialized resource, the preclinical bench and simulator laboratory will be one of the most challenging areas to deal with.
The idea of using S315 as an "extension" of 25 benches of the preclinical and simulator laboratory was not supported by the Preclinical laboratory group of instructors. They then suggested that 16 benches could be built in part of the lounge area (but would prefer to put all 30 benches in the lounge and not lose the instructor benches).
