ERSU Fund Recipients

School of Dentistry Education Research Fund (SDERF)
Past Recipients

2020

  1. Title: Dental Student Experiences with Think-Pair-Share that includes storytelling and wildcards to improve clinical learning 
    Researchers: Dr. Seema Ganatra, Dr. Arnaldo Perez, Dr. Maryam Amin, Dr. Tania Doblanko, Dr. Maryam Kebbe, Dr. Nick Holt

  2. Title: Active Learning in Classroom Dental Education: A Scoping Review 
    Researchers: Dr. Arnaldo Perez, Dr. Seema Ganatra, Dr. Tania Doblanko, Silvia Gianoni-Capenapaks, Dr. Maryam Kebbe

  3. Title: Augmented Reality application to develop learning tools for students: Transforming cellphones into flashcards
    Researchers: Dr. Nazlee Sharmin, Dr. Ava Chow

  4. Title: Transforming a dental hygiene course from face-to-face to online: Assessing the impact on students
    Researchers: Dr. Nazlee Sharmin, Dr. Ava Chow

  5. Title: The educational experience of the foreign-trained dentists enrolled in the Advanced Placement Program at the University of Alberta

    Researchers: Dr. Arnaldo Perez, Dr. Maryam Amin, Dr. Yuli Bermin-Broner, Dr. Daniel Graf, Dr. Elnaz Yazdanbakhsh, Madison Howey 

  6.  Title: Pilot concordance study to evaluate the accuracy of teledentistry for diagnosis of non-emergent soft tissue oral pathologic conditions in the Oral Medicine Graduate Clinic
    Researchers: Dr. Pallavi Parashar, Dr. Carlos Flores-Mir, Dr. Hollis Lai, Dr. Ahammad Kandari

2019

  1. Title: Children's Perspectives of Dental Care
    Researchers: Silvia Ortiz, Dr. Hollis Lai, Dr. Monica Gibson, Dr. Minn Yoon

2018

  1. Title: Examining the Cultural Competency of Current and Incoming Dental Students at the University of Alberta
    Researchers: Dr. Maryam Amin, Tasha Hou, Dr. Hollis Lai, Dr. Gisele Gaudet-Amigo, Dr. Steven Patterson
  2. Title: Assessing learning outcomes and student learning experience following use of videos to promote self-directed learning in a periodontal instrumentation skills laboratory
    Researchers: Samantha Hausler, Dr. Sharon Compton, Dr. Ava Chow, Sally Lockwood
  3. Title: Students' approach to the formulation of a periodontal diagnosis and treatment plan of pediatric patients: examining the effect of didactic and clinical experiences from a mixed-methods perspective
    Researchers: Dr. Ida Kornerup, Dr. Monica Gibson, Dr. Liran Levin

2017

  1. Title: Examining the impact of gamified learning activities in Oral Health Sciences II: Retention of key concepts and students' conceptions
    Researchers: Wendy Male, Dr. Kari Rasmussen

2016

  1. Title: Students' approach to the formulation of a diagnosis and treatment plan during their periodontal training: Examining the effect of didactic and clinical experiences from a mixed methods perspective
    Researchers: Dr. Monica Gibson, Dr. Liran Levin, Dr. Kari Rasmussen

  2. Title: The utilization of a blended learning environment to increase alignment between learning and practice: Student's perceptions of confidence in interpreting dental x-rays - a qualitative approach
    Researchers: Dr. Camila Pacheco-Pereira, Dr. Anthea Senior, Dr. Kari Rasmussen, Ellen Watson, Anita Parker

  3. Title:Using Video Clips to Support Learning in Pre-Clinical Dental Hygiene Education
    Researchers: Sally Lockwood, Dr. Sharon Compton

  4. Title: E4D Compare Educational Software usage in Pre-Clinical Dental School
    Researchers: Dr. Ysidora Torrealba, Dr. Sheila Passos, Dr. Alan Kilistoff

  5. Title:Integrating an Image Classification Teaching Tool to Enhance Student Learning
    Researchers: Dr. Hollis Lai, Dr. Minn Yoon

  6. Title:Evaluation of the Online Educational Experience in a Dental Hygiene Program
    Researchers: Dr. Ava Chow, Dr. Sharon Compton, Samantha Dalpe

  7. Title: Surgical Training Videos: Using an e-Book Model to Assess the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Virtual Training for Pre-Clinical Dental Students.
    Researchers: Dr. Reena Talwar-Povoledo, Mark Karstad, Patrick von Hauff

2015

  1. Title: Use of an iBook Course Text to Teach Removable Prosthodontics to Undergraduate Dental Students
    Tyler V. Verhaeghe, Dr. Steven K. Patterson, Aidan Rowe
  2. Title: Development of an Online Diagnostic Score Report for the Dental Hygiene OSCE
    Alix Clarke, Dr. Minn Yoon, Dr. Hollis Lai