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AA-006 - Navigating Mentoring in Dental Education: Advancing the Population Oral Health Workforce

Saturday, March 8, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

Location: Maryland B, Ballroom Level

CE: 1

Keyword: Diverse Recruitment and Retention (AA)
SoTLFest Designation: No
LIAA Designation: No

Deirdre S. Williams, D.D.S., MS

Medical University of South Carolina James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine

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Joni D. Nelson, Ph.D., M.S.

Medical University of South Carolina James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine

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To address the paucity of mentoring dental students for the advancement of the population oral health workforce through the pilot initiative, MINTS, Mentoring is Navigating Together Strongly. This session will focus on designing and implementing a mentoring program prioritizing the advancement of a population oral health workforce, describing challenges and successes, and identifying tools that can elevate dental mentoring programs to support this advancement. The initiative was two-fold with aims to: 1) recruit community dental practitioners engaged as mentors for dental students, 2) develop and implement a program for predoctoral students to advance the population oral health workforce.

Learning Objectives:

Define the process of designing and implementing a mentoring program prioritizing predoctoral dental students from URM populations.
Identify challenges and successes to such a program for mentoring predoctoral students from URM populations.
Recognize purposeful strategies and tools that can elevate dental mentoring programs to support URM predoctoral dental student mentorship in a majority institution.