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May 23, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Meet Adrienne Perry, 23, whose eyes were opened to the vast oral health problems faced by adults and children during a trip to Guatemala. That trip, coupled with six weeks of intensive classes through SMDEP, awakened the third-year Howard University ...
August 22, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Although the number of students applying to dental schools has risen in the last decade, the number of minority students has not risen proportionately. Simply increasing the applicant pool does not guarantee that diversity in the student body will i ...
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The Pipeline program significantly increased senior dental students' selection of extramural community rotations.
May 19, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Denise Davis, Dr.P.H., is an RWJF program officer, and the guiding force behind RWJF’s Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community Based Dental Education program (the Dental Pipeline program). The program ran from 2001 to 2010, working to increase di ...
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This chapter introduces the first section of a report on RWJF's Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education program. Through the program, senior dental students have provided dental care to underserved populations.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article in a special issue of the Journal of Dental Education features RWJF's Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education (CBDE) program. The authors describe the implementation of CBDE at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article from a special issue of the Journal of Dental Education highlights RWJF's Dental Pipeline program and experiences reported at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dental Pipeline Project.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Areas are suggested for future study to help dental schools increase the amount of time students spend in community-based education and service.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Using various combinations of focused approaches, dental schools increased enrollment of underrepresented minority and low-income students by 25 percent, according to this chapter in a supplement to the Journal of Dental Education
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Holistic admissions practices at dental schools that are driven by a mission statement targeting diversity and linked to educational objectives, are legally permissible and can increase diversity, according to this article in a supplement to the Journal of Dental Education.