Goals

Dental Hygiene AAS

Pima’s Dental Hygiene Program provides accessible high-quality education to prepare students to provide dental hygiene patient care.

Dental Hygiene Program Goals

1.  Cultivate a learning environment that is open to other points of view, safe to consider them critically, and rich in discussion. Strategic communication with and respect toward others and their views are key components in achieving this goal.
2. Provide evidence-based instruction and service learning to develop and expand student skills in current dental trends and technology.
3. Support and empower students to develop a patient-centered care approach that align with the patient’s culture, experience, social and emotional practices.
4. Facilitate the development of our students in becoming knowledgeable, clinically competent, ethical, and caring professionals.
5. Maintain a commitment to professionalism and the standard of excellence.
6. Provide opportunities for students to incorporate program and community health activities that promote diversity and multicultural growth and development.
7. Foster teamwork and collaboration between patients, students, faculty, and staff to increase learning and understanding and develop personal relationships.
8. Support and prepare students to qualify for and successfully pass board examinations necessary for national and regional examinations for state licensure.
9. Ensure that all outcome measures meet the accountability guidelines of the College, the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, and the needs of the community.
10. Foster and support lifelong learning and career progression through dental hygiene continuing education.