DENTISTRY MENTORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Dental Externship at the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry

Place: UT College of Dentistry

Date: October 15, 2007

Deadline: October 1, 2007

Contact: Dr. Wisdom Coleman, 1-800-788-0040, scoleman@utmem.edu

This is a one day program sponsored by the American Dental Student Association. It will begin at 8:00 a.m. and end at 1:30 p.m. The day will consist of a tour of the dental school, demonstrations on the dental simulators, attending lectures and labs, and lunch with dental students.

Mentoring Opportunity for Students Interested in Dentisty

The American Dental Association (ADA) announces mentoring opportunities for high school and college students interested in dentistry as a career. Information about the "pilot" mentoring activity is available on the ADA's web site.

The site contains information on the benefits of mentoring, how the program works and follow up/contact information. If you have problems accessing the above web site, you can also access mentoring information via the ADA's main web site.

For further information, contact Beverly Skoog, ADA, skoogb@ada.org

Pre-Dental Externship Program

The College of Dentistry of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is beginning a pre-dental externship program for college undergraduate students. For specifics, call Dr. Phillip O.Dowdle at
(901) 448-6204 or e-mail him at: pdowdle@utmem.edu