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EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM

OKU has expanded the "Badlands 6" externship by sending 6 students back to the Badlands of South Dakota and 7 students to the Quentin N. Burdick Memorial Health Care Facility in Belcourt, North Dakota where they treated members of the Chippewa Tribal Nation.

GOALS OF THE PROGRAM

The Clinical Externship program is designed to develop and enhance the following characteristics of the students:

1. Social awareness and skills needed in treating underserved populations. Students experience problems and opportunities involved in providing health care for people whose access to such care is limited by circumstances of geography, economics, handicaps, etc.
2. Knowledge and skills utilized in patient management and in certain aspects of practice management.
3. Clinical efficiency. Students are provided with an opportunity to work in a one-to-one relationship with a preceptor which results in the completion of an increasingly greater number of completed procedures in a given time period.
4. Professional competence and self-confidence. As a result of the close relationship between students and preceptor, students will develop greater confidence in their own clinical knowledge and abilities.
5. Knowledge and skills involving research, scientific inquiry and public policy relating to oral health.

Application * Evaluation Waiver and Release for Study Outside UMDNJ * Externship Positions *You MUST HAVE Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or greater in order to view the application and evaluation, which can be downloaded by clicking on the "Get Adobe Acrobat Reader" below.

Staff at Dental Clinic - Antioch, Alaska

Shylon Mathew, 2004 and Staff at Dental Clinic - Antioch, Alaska

Surrounding Territory - Antioch, Alaska

Dental Clinic - Antioch, Alaska

HOW TO FIND AN EXTERNSHIP SITE

1. Externship positions are listed off this web site or from the Office of Student Affairs
2. Information is also available from upperclassmen, who previously attended externship programs.
3. Check the American Student Dental Association website.

PROTOCOL USED FOR ASSIGNMENT OF SITES AND MONITORING:

1. Student makes initial contact with the site.
2. Student fills out externship application and submits it to the Office of Student Affairs at least two months prior to anticipated start date
3. The Director of Academic Advising and Student Support Services contacts the externship program director.
4. The Office of Student Affairs submits request for risk/claims letter which serves as the student's insurance during the externship. ***cannot start without this
5. Student reads and signs Waiver and Release for Study Outside UMDNJ
6. The Office of Student Affairs notifies students of site approval.

All students are required to telephone their preceptors prior to leaving for the assignment to discuss particulars related to the individual site.

Following completion of the externship assignment, students must complete an on-line evaluation through CourseEval of their externship experience..

Attendance and Supervision

Attendance at the Externship site during all operating hours of the facility is mandatory. Students are not allowed to treat patients at Externship sites if the Preceptor (or a licensed dentist employed by the site) is not present.

Student Selection Criteria

Students will be authorized to participate in the Externship program if they meet the following criteria:

1. All grades to date must be satisfactory;
2. Successful completion of National Board Part I;
3. No unmet financial obligations for tuition or fee

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