Description of a Collaborative Rural Dental Scholar Program

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Discusses a series of initiatives to increase Alabama's rural dental workforce through a partnership between The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry and The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences. Describes the interventions designed to get rural students interested and participating in oral health training. Details a summer program for high school students, a pathway program for post-grads, and scholarships for participating students.

Carly Timmons McKenzie, Paul Drake Lavender

Journal of Dental Education, 89(9), 1356-1361

09/2025

Dental workforce · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce pipeline · Oral health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Alabama