In this new era of relationship‐based care, involvement in treatment planning and goal setting is a high priority for patient satisfaction. This study reports on the use of standardized patients (SPs) in training third‐year dental students to gather dental, medical, and psychosocial information from patients and to involve the patient in the decision‐making process leading to the dental treatment plan. Among the skill areas measured, students were most successful in gathering dental information, with 94 percent of the students obtaining the complete set. Students were least successful in identifying the patient's goals for treatment (81 percent of the students identified the patients' goals). Students were most challenged by discussing sensitive topics with patients such as grief‐related depression (25 percent of the students recognized and discussed such topics). It is important that dental schools familiarize students with patient issues and teach them how to talk effectively to patients about personal issues and to incorporate those issues into a discussion of the treatment plan for the patient. Standardized patients can be used effectively toward this end.
The effect of aging commercial 24S-T aluminum alloy sheet, [or various periods at 350°, 3 75°, 385° and 400° F, on its t e ns ile properties and resis tance to corrosion was determined. Aging for 3 hours at 385 0 F prod uced an increase in yicld strength of about 25 percent above an in itial valuc of about 50,000 Ib/ in . 2 , an increase in te nsile s tre ngt h of about 3 percent above an initi al valuc of 70,000 Ib/in.2, and a decrease to about onc-third of the initial elongation of 17 to 18 perce n t. Approximately t hc samc values for thcse propertie were obtained by agi ng the material for 20 hours at 350 0 F, 5 hours a t 375° F , or 1% hours at 400 0 F. Mate rials aged 3 to 10 hours at 3 5° F and 6 to 12 hours at 375 0 F were generally immune to s tre s-corrosion cracking and were no more severcly damaged in corrosive media, J a CI + H20 2 solu tion or marine atmo phere, t han the com mcrcially heat-tr eated material exposed without artificial aging.
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