Leigha
Rock,
DDDH, BDSc, PhD, RDH
Associate Professor and Director, School of Dental Hygiene
Dalhousie University
Dr. Leigha Rock is an Associate Professor and Director of the School of Dental Hygiene in the Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University. Dr. Rock is also cross appointed to the Departments of Pharmacology and Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine. She is a Scientist at the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute and holds a scientific appointment at Nova Scotia Health, Department of Anatomical Pathology. Dr. Rock is also a co-chair of the National Oral Health Research Strategy a collaborative initiative led by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA).
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Interprofessional collaboration between oral and health professionals supports enhanced patient care and outcomes. IPECP in pre-licensure education supports professional/interprofessional socialization. Within IPECP, students develop understanding of their professional role, identity and begin developing an interprofessional identity where collaborative attitudes, behaviours, and skills are developed. IPECP literature in oral health education is limited. It is not well understood how dental hygiene (DH) and dentistry (DDS) students are educated in IPECP and prepared for…