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:
1. Apply a team approach to community-based dental care.
2. Utilize effective four-handed dentistry.
3. Practice within the community-clinic public health model.
4. Manage the oral health needs of rural and/or underserved communities within the context of social and cultural factors.
5. 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.
6. Describe the leadership qualities of an effective leader of an oral healthcare team.
7. Analyze a mission statement.
8. Compare community health dental practice to private dental practice.
9. Create an improvement plan for a current clinical-scheduling protocol.
Date last updated: 2024-07-08