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Domain

Criteria

Self-directed Effort and Scientific Formatting

Paper demonstrates individual effort. Plagiarism software report yields a similarity score of <30%.

Paper meets scientific formatting standards as delineated in the Research Paper Guidelines, Word count: minimum 1600 and maximum 2000 words. Word count includes title page, paper sections/sub-headers.

Body text formatting and spacing, in-text references, appropriately formatted reference page.

If the publication has one to four authors, list all of them; if there are more than four authors, list the first three followed by et al.

Follow the style of these general Index Medicus style examples:

Book

1. Avery JK. Essentials of oral histology and embryology: a clinical approach. 2nd ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 2000.

Chapter in an Edited Volume

1. Inglehart MR, Filstrup SL, Wandera A. Oral health and quality of life in children. In: Inglehart MR, Bragramian RA, eds. Oral health-related quality of life. Chicago: Quintessence Publishing Co., 2002:79-88.

Article in a Journal

1. Seale NS, Casamassimo PS. U.S. predoctoral education in pediatric dentistry: its impact on access to dental care. J Dent Educ 2003;67(1):23-9.

Report

1. Commission on Dental Accreditation. Accreditation standards for dental education programs. Chicago: American Dental Association, 2010.

Web Source

1. American Dental Hygienists Association. Position paper: access to care. 2001. At: www.adha.org/profissues/access_to_care.htm. Accessed: November 27, 2012.

Research Methodology

Scientific Inquiry

Paper demonstrates competence in accessing and critically appraising literature:

– Paper includes a minimum of 8 literature sources (references) from the approved journal list.

– Paper references are derived from higher levels of evidenced-based research, e.g. systematic reviews / Meta analyses, randomized controlled clinical trials, non-randomized clinical trials rather than observational studies, case series and reports and expert opinions.

Conclusions reached in each learning objective are supported by evidence references.

The paper applies basic scientific knowledge into clinical application. Data found is transformed into a practical context.

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

All learning objectives are addressed with demonstration of critical thinking and problem solving.

Critical thinking includes:

– gathering correct and applicable data from different sources.

– Evaluating alternative approaches.

– identifying priorities from data.

– connecting, comparing, contrasting and inferences across data.

– applying the identified data to formulate an answer to each learning objective.

– evaluating if the data found answers the learning objective effectively.

Problem solving includes:

– Student is able to demonstrate how the knowledge acquired from the literature applies to patient care (i.e. Solve a clinical challenge, prevent failure of treatment and/or adverse patient outcomes, improves procedural outcomes, etc).

– applying knowledge found into new questions and expanding the data search accordingly.

– formulate hypothesis and test these against literature searched.