Program Goals
Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College’s Dental Hygiene Program goals are:
- To provide a high quality program of instruction that prepares dental hygienists to:
- Have an heightened awareness of social and cultural diversity, ethics, and professionalism;
- Apply critical thinking to integrate current scientific principles/technology with the provision of evidence-based, comprehensive health care;
- Perform to the level of clinical competency those legally approved oral health services as defined by the West Virginia Board of Dental Examiners;
- Perform to the level of laboratory competency those legally approved oral health services stipulated in the practice acts of other states, districts, or territories of the United States;
- Coordinate oral health services for a variety of populations in diverse settings(public health agencies, school systems, hospitals, clinics, etc.);
- Work collaboratively with community leaders, health care professionals, and lay persons to manage the oral health needs of rural southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky; and,
- Pursue professional development through self-study, continuing education, and advanced studies at the baccalaureate, masters and doctorate levels.
- To recruit, admit and retain students with the potential to succeed within the dental hygiene program.
- To create an environment conducive to faculty promotion, retention, and satisfaction.
- The first program goal is congruent with the Competencies of the Dental Hygiene graduate as adopted by the ADEA.
The program goals and corresponding competencies are:
- 1a. C1, C2, C6, C7, C9, HP2, and PGD3.
- 1b. C3, C4, C5, HP3, HP4, HP5, HP6, PC1, PC2, PC3, and PC4.
- 1c. C10, PC1, PC2, PC3, and PC4.
- 1d. C10, PC1, PC2, PC3, and PC4.
- 1e. C8, C9, HP1, HP3, HP4, CM1, CM2, CM3, CM4, CM5, and CM6.
- 1f. CM1, CM2, CM3, CM4, CM5, CM6, and PC3.
- 1g. C6, PGD1, PGD2, and PGD3.
