You Are a Dental Hygiene Instructor in Your Local Community

You are a dental hygiene instructor in your local community college dental hygiene program teaching the community oral health course. The dean of the health sciences division would like to implement a trial run of an interprofessional education (IPE) initiative involving dental hygiene and the other healthcare professions education programs in the college. You are asked to coordinate the development and administration of dental hygiene's involvement through your community course and other community experiences in clinical and other courses. The intent is to place a group of dental hygiene students in the incoming class in the IPE program and use questionnaires, interviews, and examinations to collect and analyze process and outcomes data over their 2 years in the program to determine outcomes. Outcomes data will include students' learning of the required community oral health content in addition to their understanding, perceptions, attitudes, and future interest in relation to interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP) . The data will be analyzed to evaluate the value and success of the program and to determine if it should be continued and expanded or discontinued after the initial 2 years.
-Which of the following research terms can be used to describe this initial program?

A) Experimental research
B) Meta-analysis
C) Pilot study
D) Systematic review