PERCEPTIONS OF DENTAL ACADEMIA: THE STUDENT’S DENTAL HOME
by
Meghan R. Bastin
BS in Dental Hygiene, University of Pittsburgh, 2010
Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of
Graduate School of Public Health in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
2015
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
This essay is submitted
by
Meghan Bastin
on
May 12, 2015
and approved by
Essay Advisor:
David Finegold, MD ________________________________________
Director
Multidisciplinary Master of Public Health Program
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Essay Reader:
Martha Ann Terry, PhD ________________________________________
Assistant Professor and Director, MPH Program
Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Essay Reader:
Robert J. Weyant, DMD, DrPH _________________________________________
Professor and Chair
Department of Dental Public Health
346 Salk, School of Dental Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
David Finegold, MD
PERCEPTIONS OF DENTAL ACADEMIA: THE STUDENT’S DENTAL HOME
Meghan Bastin, MPH
University of Pittsburgh, 2015
Everyone has a role to play in making the emotional climate of our health education institutions more respectful and nurturing. Many different stakeholders are starting to demand that environments change to be more responsive to the needs of the patients they serve as well as healthy places for people to work and learn.