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M J Bebeau

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PubMed1984

Masculine and feminine personality attributes of dental students and their attitudes toward women's roles in society.

Egalitarian attitudes and the personality traits of instrumentality (masculinity) and expressiveness (femininity) were examined for 314 male and 71 female dental students. Women dental students hold far more egalitarian views toward women's roles than a norm group of women college students, who are somewhat more liberal than male dental students. Female dental students are also more instrumental than college women, though somewhat less instrumental than male dental students. Male and female dental students did not differ on expressiveness, though both were less expressive than college women. A comparison of dental students with academic psychologists suggests that successful professionals have similar personality traits regardless of gender.

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Ethical issues in nursing home care: practice guidelines for difficult situations.

Dental professionals encounter a number of challenging ethical and legal dilemmas when caring for nursing home residents. Questions may arise in determining a patient's capacity to make decisions, securing consent for treatment, choosing the most appropriate from among several treatment options, and when and how to use restraints. When securing consent for treatment, practitioners must consider both the patient's legal competence and his/her decision-making capacity, and adopt roles appropriate to the patient's circumstances. If legal competence has been retained but decision-making seems impaired, practitioners must involve others in the process of determining appropriate care. The capacity to consent to treatment can be assessed by questions designed to evaluate the patient's ability to understand relevant information, appreciate the situation and consequences, manipulate information rationally, and communicate choices. When faced with a choice of several treatment options and patient preferences are unclear or unknown, the principle of substituted judgment should be used to attempt to provide care in keeping with the patient's values. To maximize patient safety and dignity, ten guidelines are presented for the use of restraints to provide dental care for individuals with behavior problems.

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Hugo A. Owens: dentist, civil rights leader, politician.

For 44 years Dr Hugo A. Owens was a distinguished practitioner and community leader in Portsmouth and Chesapeake, Virginia, and also served for a time as president of the National Dental Association. Besides his proclivity for dentistry, he was driven by two other passions: politics and civil rights. In 1970 he was one of the first African Americans ever elected to the Chesapeake City Council. He was reelected for the next term and appointed vice mayor, a position he held for 8 years. His political successes were preceded by his activities as a civil rights leader, which began in 1950 and lasted through the 1960s. In a remarkable series of negotiations and litigations, Dr Owens was the prime mover in the desegregation of the city of Portsmouth. In all three "careers," Dr Owens used dentistry as a home base for the expression of his activist philosophy of providing help for others when they were unable to help themselves.

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The development of a professional role orientation inventory.

This paper describes the development and testing of the Professional Role Orientation Inventory, a 40-item Likert-type instrument designed to assess a dentist's perception of his or her professional role. The test includes four 10-item scales representing four attitudinal dimensions: Authority, Responsibility, Agency, and Autonomy. The study describes differences between and among groups of professionals and dental students who took the test. Responses to the various scales suggest that practitioners do have different conceptualizations of their professional role, though these conceptions vary somewhat from the various models of professionalism described in the literature.

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