Enrollment in dental assisting programs in the United States

PLEASE NOTE: This work is protected by copyright. Downloading is restricted to the BU community: please click Download and log in with a valid BU account to access. If you are the author of this work and would like to make it publicly available, please contact open-help@bu.edu.Thesis (M.Sc.)--Boston University, Henry M. Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry, 1982 (Dental Public Health).Includes bibliographical references: (leaves 28-29).The purpose of this study was to survey dental assisting programs in the United States in an attempt to identify variables which might affect enrollment, which was reported to have declined from 1979 to 1980. A questionnaire concerning financial incentives, recruitment procedures, marketing techniques, program features and deterrents, reasons for enrollment changes, and closing programs, was mailed to 280 dental assisting programs in the United States. The programs were categorized as to enrollment decline and no decline, and variables were examined in relation to this categorization. The results substantiated enrollment decline and suggested that factors external to the programs were the cause. The outlook was optimistic since most programs were not considering closing and program administrators were not resorting to drastic measures at the time the survey was conducted