You are hired as a new faculty member by a dental hygiene program and are assigned to teach the community oral health course. You review the course materials, learning activities, and projects for the course handed down by the previous course instructor, who has retired. Never having taught before and not having had a positive experience in your community oral health course as a student, you decide to do some research on different ways to teach in relation to community oral health.
-You discuss your ideas about service-learning (S-L) with a colleague from the nutrition department whom you met during the campus-wide new faculty orientation at the beginning of the school year. She will be teaching the community course in the nutrition department and is also interested in implementing S-L. During your discussions you explore the possibility of nutrition and dental hygiene students working together on an S-L project and discuss possibly reaching out to other health professions departments in your college to get involved as well. All of the following statements EXCEPT one are true in relation to this approach. Which one is the EXCEPTION?

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Nutrition and dental hygiene students working together on an S-L project illustrates the interprofessional collaborative practice model at the student level. ICP opportunities and participation in S-L projects do not replace the need for the presentation of community oral health content. They provide opportunities to apply these concepts to real-world situations to improve the oral health of the community while reinforcing and even enhancing learning at the same time. Other answer choices are true statements that provide rationale for the use of the ICP approach in S-L projects.

You Are Hired as a New Faculty Member by a Dental