Dental Public Health

W-006 - Overcoming Barriers to Dental Education Using Pipeline Programs: New Perspectives

Sunday, March 20, 2022

10:30am – 11:30am EST

CE: 1 Hr.

Presenter(s)

Cheryline Pezzullo, D.D.S.

NYU College of Dentistry

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Lorel E. Burns, D.D.S, M.S.

NYU College of Dentistry

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Eugenia Mejia, Ph.D.

New York University College of Dentistry
Rose Amable, D.D.S.

NYU College of Dentistry
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Vanessa Mancuso, D.D.S.

New York University: College of Dentistry and Boston University
Giannina Conde, D.D.S.

New York University: College of Dentistry

Through pre-dental pipeline programs, participants have access to informational resources and mentorship. Despite participation in these programs, perceived barriers are still prevalent. Since 2013, Saturday Academy(SA) at NYUCD has aimed to educate underrepresented minority and low-income high school students about the college application process and the dental profession. Focus groups/satisfaction data analysis from SA alumni, from both live and a newly instituted virtual format, revealed clear perceived barriers to entering the dental profession. This information, revealing issues surrounding adequate undergraduate pre-health advising, provides insight on targeted areas where increased intervention may be helpful to reduce challenges and strengthen the pipeline.

Learning Objectives:

Identify perceived barriers to the dental profession, particularly as it applies to prehealth advising among URM predental students.
Describe how to successfully transition or implement a virtual pipeline program for predental students.
Outline methods to overcoming barriers to the dental profession using live or virtual pipeline programming and model this at their own institution.
Identify perceived barriers to the dental profession, particularly as it applies to prehealth advising among URM predental students.