Dental School

Description of Activities

Dentals schools that elect to be "world class" in the 21 st Century must respond to challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities beyond those of past years. They must provide their students the highest level of scientific and technologic preparation for professional service to the patient community, they must remain at the forefront of research so that patients benefit from scientific endeavor and discovery, and they must endow both students and faculty with an appreciation for their role in the global community and the unmet oral health needs of patients nationally and internationally. In a world of diminishing barriers to communication and service, extramural programs in foreign countries offer faculty and students numerous opportunities to add new and rewarding dimensions to education, professional and cultural enrichment, and global oral health.

The Dental School's Global Maryland program provides opportunities for faculty and student exchange with affiliated foreign dental schools, collaborative faculty research, collaborative teaching, postgraduate education, and direct preventive and curative oral health care to underserved communities in developing nations.

Many activities of the Global Maryland initiative are based in established collegial relationships with 15 dental schools in 12 foreign countries, and the opportunities defined in related Memoranda of Understanding (MOU):

  • Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
  • University of the Medical Sciences of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
  • Intercontinental University, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Medical University of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
  • Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
  • University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Ragas Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, India
  • Poznan University of the Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
  • Nippon Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
  • Nippon Dental University, Niigata, Japan
  • Peking University School of Stomatology, Beijing, China
  • Trinity Dental College and Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Other activities of the Global Maryland initiative are supported by national and international governmental and non-governmental agencies and are focused on oral health research and direct patient care in developing nations:

  • HIV/AIDS research in the Caribbean area
  • Noma research in Africa
  • Operation Smile Dental Missions to Vietnam
  • Dental Missions in the Dominican Republic and Honduras

Field Experience Opportunities

Contact Dr. Michael Belenky.

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