IMPORTANT: As of 2024-2025, Service Learning Rotations take place during DENTGP 652, 662, 672, 682 Comprehensive General Dentistry 1-4.
Program Director: Rachel Greene
Quarters/Yr of Program: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring / 4
Overview
SLR students will rotate in a community, tribal dental, or private practice clinic that delivers dental care to patients in need. Under the guidance of a preceptor dentist, these students work as members of the dental team while gaining a better understanding of dental practice.
Learning Objectives
After their Service Learning Rotation, students will be able to:
- Apply a team approach to community-based dental care.
- Utilize effective four-handed dentistry.
- Practice within the community-clinic public health model.
- Manage the oral health needs of rural and/or underserved communities within the context of social and cultural factors.
- Reflect upon one’s own cultural awareness of rural and/or underserved communities when describing the oral health needs and challenges of the patient population one serves.
- Describe the leadership qualities of an effective leader of an oral healthcare team.
- Analyze a mission statement.
- Compare community health dental practice to private dental practice.
- Create an improvement plan for a current clinical-scheduling protocol.
Date last updated: 2026-03-31