Our Mission Statement
The Toronto College of Dental Hygiene and Auxiliaries Inc. provides a learning centered environment enabling individuals to develop personal and professional success by offering high standards of current comprehensive dental education. These standards provide knowledge and skills that reflect current practice and promote ongoing education and research.
Our Philosophy
The Toronto College of Dental Hygiene and Auxiliaries Inc. believes students, clients, staff, faculty, and the community in which we live and work, need to be treated with respect and that we all need to work collaboratively to achieve high standards of dental education.
Students should recognize that clients are individuals with unique and diverse social, physical, economic and cultural needs. They also have various demands, motivations, resources and definitions of wellness. Students therefore, must develop competence in providing professional, client-focused care to a diverse population of clients in various practice environments.
Our Values
- We believe that students are our primary focus.
- We strive to obtain each individual's maximum growth potential.
- We value our clients/patients and respect that they are partners in care of their oral health.
- We value our clients/patients and respect that their personal and clinical information is private and must remain confidential.
- We value and encourage the growth and learning of our students, staff and community.
- We value the need for ongoing maintenance and improvement of our facility and programs.
Our Accountability
We will commit ourselves to achieve our mission by ensuring high levels of current dental education to our students.
We will ensure that our teaching faculty is fully equipped with high quality and up to date equipment.
We will ensure that our teaching faculty is competent, ethical and current with professional skills and standards as set out by the Provincial and National Regulatory Governing Bodies.
We will continually ensure to promote and encourage educational and clinical advancements to our teaching faculty and staff.
We will continually evaluate and revise the programs to meet with current standards of practice.
We will ensure that the programs have a systematic approach of learning in place in order for students to receive high standards of current, comprehensive dental education.
Our Goal
The goal of the Toronto College of Dental Hygiene and Auxiliaries Inc is to promote a learning-centered environment and to encourage learning to be a life-long activity.
