Enhancing Dental Students’ Understanding of Poverty Through Simulation
A new publication is out ahead of print! Congratulations Dr. Lampiris and team for the publication of their poverty simulation. Lampiris LN, White A, Sams LD, White T, Weintraub JA. Enhancing Dental Students’ Understanding of Poverty Through Simulation. J Dent … Read more
Walk in the shoes of some of the patients
On August 1st, Michelle Manchir, of the American Dental Association, published an article on the poverty simulations Dr. Lampiris holds for dental students. Manchir describes Lampiris’ work with dental students utilizing the simulation to increase their understanding of the challenges faced by families … Read more
Dental Students Get A Lesson in Empathy
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, … Read more
Poverty Simulation as an Educational Tool for Dental and Nursing Students
On February 21, Drs. Lew Lampiris and Rumay Alexander presented a session on 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 … Read more
UNC dental school expansion nearing completion
The WRAL Channel 5 Health Team reported on the progress in building the UNC Dental School expansion.The expansion includes a 105 seat simulation lab for the students. The full article can be found here.