PASDA student members, Dr. Bin Yang, and Dr. Judy Yuan volunteered their time at a recent Chinatown Community Health Fair—an interdisciplinary event that involved UIC dental, medical, and pharmacy schools, Northwestern and UIC assistants/translators, and the Illinois College of Optometry.
Dr. Christina Nicholas's pilot grant proposal titled “The Effects of Food Insecurity on the Oral Microbiomes of Children in Chicago” was approved for funding.
As a high school student, you may be wondering what you can do to prepare for a career in dentistry. From taking the right science classes to volunteering and working on handskills, there are many things that you can do right now to prepare for dental school.
A dentist must be able to work with precision on an extremely small scale. This requires exceptional hand-eye coordination to ensure the safety of patients and proficiency in the use of many different instruments. Here are some ways to practice hand skills before dental school.
As leaders in health care delivery, translational research and education across multiple diverse disciplines, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry and UI Health are committed to training the health care leaders of the future. A key element in our curriculum is training using medical simulation techniques.
