Treatment Participation Policy
As a part of the educational process, dental and dental hygiene students will be required from time to time to satisfactorily participate in diagnostic, therapeutic, and nontherapeutic oral health care services. Each student will be required to participate as a caregiver and as the patient. This requirement is disclosed before admission. By enrolling, each student consents to this requirement. Student patients may be provided care by any assigned student or faculty member. All personal health care information provided to the school by a student patient is confidential in nature, will be treated with the confidentiality accorded a patient record under Maryland health care laws and school policy, and will be used only in connection with delivery of oral health care services. Exceptions to this required participation in educational activities may be warranted in extraordinary circumstances, such as a high risk to the student-patient or to the provider associated with the delivery of treatment. Applicants or students with concerns about such situations should contact the chair of the Clinical Operations Board, who has the authority to determine when exceptions will be granted.
Reviewed: August 1, 2016