60 Minute Seminar

Educational Programs, Workshops, Seminars, New Idea Session, and Small Group Discussions

E-006 - Connect with Dental Education's Emerging Workforce: The Internationally Educated

Presenter(s)

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  Elizabeth Towne, D.D.S.

  The University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine
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  Rosa Chaviano Moran, D.M.D.

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Dental Medicine
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Dental Medicine

Internationally educated oral health professionals are an invaluable resource of expertise and manpower. They represent an increasing presence in dental education’s workforce. Their journeys and stories are compelling, and their challenges are staggering. Learn about those challenges from those who experienced them first-hand in their extraordinary efforts to be here, stay here and contribute to our profession. They can be key dental educators, researchers and oral health care providers of the future. Learn about educational and legal hurdles, trends in our advanced dental education programs and our internationally educated colleague and student communities.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify educational, legal, visa status and other important challenges for the internationally educated oral health professionals working and studying at our dental institutions.
• Describe the time-consuming process of pursuing citizenship for our internationally educated student immigrants studying at our advanced standing dental education programs.
• List emerging issues and trends in the dental education and oral health care provider workforce.