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- Title
Recruiting Underrepresented Minority and Low-Income High School Students into Dentistry While Educating Dental and Dental Hygiene Students About Academic Careers.
- Authors
Inglehart, Marita R.; Stefanac, Stephen J.; Johnson, Kimberly P.; Gwozdek, Anne E.; May, Kenneth B.; Piskorowski, William; Woolfolk, Marilyn W.
- Abstract
The objectives of this project were to create a program that would expose underrepresented minority (URM) and low income (LI) high school students to dental professions and provide an opportunity for dental and dental hygiene students from URM/LI groups to be engaged in teaching activities. Data were collected from participants during the school years 2009-10 (high school students: N=23, dental students: N=21, dental hygiene students: N=5) and 2010-11 (N=27, N=11, N=3, respectively). The students participated in fifteen Saturday sessions from October through March each year. The data showed that, from the begin-ning, mentees and mentors were very interested in participating in the program and getting to know each other. Lectures, general program activities, and patient-related events such as organizing a health fair and shadowing during two outreach clinics were evaluated positively by mentees and mentors. The end of program evaluations showed that the program and the mentee-mentor relationships were rated very positively and that the mentees had an increased interest in oral health-related careers. In conclu-sion, creating opportunities for URM/LI high school students to explore dental careers and for dental and dental hygiene students to engage in teaching resulted in positive experiences for both groups.
- Subjects
LOW-income high school students; DENTAL students; DENTAL education; DENTAL hygiene; STUDENT recruitment; ACQUISITION of data; MINORITY students
- Publication
Journal of Dental Education, 2014, Vol 78, Issue 3, p423
- ISSN
0022-0337
- Publication type
Article