Career Mentoring Web Resources

ADA.org: Dental Education Programs
A listing of the ADA Commission-accredited US and Canadian Dental Education Programs.

• ADA.org

Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend. Information on various aspects of the mentoring relationship including minority and cultural issues.

• www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/mentor/1.html

Consider Working for a Community Health Center

• Highlights the major factors/rewards of working as a dentist at a Community Health Center (CHC) | PDF file/109k

Note: This article is from ASDA's The Mouth, Winter 2005/Volume 25/Number 4

Handbook for Developing Mentor Programs. The handbook, provided by the ADA Committee on the New Dentist, covers ideas for developing mentoring programs as well as examples of existing dental society programs geared toward dental students. Contact the Committee on the New Dentist at newdentist@ada.org to obtain this handbook.

Hispanics for Dentistry
To increase the number of Hispanic Dentists and Dental Students in the Los Angeles, California area, the Web site and grassroots volunteer based mentorship education program aims to encourage youth to take advantage of career opportunities in the field of Dentistry.

• www.hispanicsfordentistry.org/volunteer_program.htm

Mentoring: A Professional Responsibility. An article from Proctor and Gamble’s Online Journal describing a survey highlighting mentoring as the most important factor determining a student’s career choice. Also includes comprehensive Reference Section.

• www.thejcdp.com/issue011/index.htm

National Mentoring Partnership. Information for mentors including pertinent mentoring research.

• www.mentoring.org/research_corner/mar_background_debate.adp

National Mentoring Center. A comprehensive site listing mentoring training and resource information sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.

• www.nwrel.org/mentoring/

Pipeline Profession & Practice: Community Based Dental Education. First corporate-University partnership in Nation to fund dental education for low-Income and minority students.

• www.dentalpipeline.org/

Something To Smile About - Careers in the Dental Profession
Promotional career materials and resources such as brochures, fact sheets, CD-ROMs, PowerPoint presentations, tabletop exhibits and others.

• ADA.org

Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP). This new program is geared to upgrading the academic readiness of minority college students (freshmen and sophomores) from disadvantaged backgrounds interested in medicine and dentistry. The program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a six week summer enrichment program set to begin this summer ('06) at ten SMDEP sites. (Case Western, Columbia, UCLA, Howard, UT Houston, UMDNJ, University of Louisville, University of Nebraska, and University of Washington are the joint medical/dental sites).

• www.smdep.org

For student resources, visit the Career Mentoring Resources page in the Your Oral Health section of the site.

Contact Information
Bev Skoog
Phone: 800-621-8099 x2390 or 312-440-2390
E-mail: skoogb@ada.org

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