On July 6th, Leah Asmelash published an article in North Carolina Health News about the School of Dentistry’s poverty simulation.
Third-year dental students spend eight weeks going out into communities around the state and treating patients, many from low-income families, as part of the Dentistry in Service to Communities program. Dr. Lew Lampiris recognized a need to improve his students understanding of the challenges facing their patients and patient’s families.
The article describes work by Dr. Lampiris and his team to present a poverty simulation as an educational tool for dental and nursing students as part of the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy Seminar Series at the Cecil G. Sheps Center.
To read the article, click here. You can also see a video of the event here.