Presentation Category
Community Oral Health
Introduction/Context/Diagnosis
The Guatemala Global Service Learning Trip stands as one of two opportunities available to Dugoni students for providing care and enhancing oral health abroad. These ventures faced a pause amidst the pandemic, but in 2023, the Guatemala trip was reestablished. Student leadership drives all global trips at Dugoni, typically comprising 2 senior trip leaders responsible for organizing and coordinating the trip, alongside 2 junior leaders-in-training who observe the senior trip leads. Faculty members attend to supervise clinical procedures, and the trip is supported by administrative oversight. In 2023, the recultivation of this particular outreach initiative was spearheaded by the trip leaders Kayla Hunt and Hwajeong Kim, whose leadership played a pivotal role in reestablishing the trip and ensuring its success upon its return after a two-year hiatus. Due to limited resources available from trips prior to the COVID hiatus, the student leaders were left with the responsibility of laying the foundation from which the future trips would be constructed. Several aspects of the trip that were rebuilt include the reestablishment of communication between the partner organization, Pacific Dental Society, and Dugoni, the organization of the clinic flow, supply list, lodging, and transportation, as well as the implementation of financial protocols and a new application. After the first Guatemala service learning trip was successfully completed, the foundational framework that was established by the trip leaders was pivotal in the composition of the current Guatemala Service Learning Trip Guidebook. This resource serves as a testament to the work that was pioneered to aid successive generations in not only efficient and successful implementation of future Guatemala trips, but in hopes of each team achieving greater milestones than the year before. A big thank you to our administrative and faculty support, trip leads and attendees, Pacific Dental Services Foundation, and the Henry Schein Foundation.
Location
Arthur A Dugoni School of Dentistry, 155 5th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Format
Presentation
Sonrisas (Smiles) for Guatemala: Reestablishment of an Outreach Initiative Post-COVID
Arthur A Dugoni School of Dentistry, 155 5th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
The Guatemala Global Service Learning Trip stands as one of two opportunities available to Dugoni students for providing care and enhancing oral health abroad. These ventures faced a pause amidst the pandemic, but in 2023, the Guatemala trip was reestablished. Student leadership drives all global trips at Dugoni, typically comprising 2 senior trip leaders responsible for organizing and coordinating the trip, alongside 2 junior leaders-in-training who observe the senior trip leads. Faculty members attend to supervise clinical procedures, and the trip is supported by administrative oversight. In 2023, the recultivation of this particular outreach initiative was spearheaded by the trip leaders Kayla Hunt and Hwajeong Kim, whose leadership played a pivotal role in reestablishing the trip and ensuring its success upon its return after a two-year hiatus. Due to limited resources available from trips prior to the COVID hiatus, the student leaders were left with the responsibility of laying the foundation from which the future trips would be constructed. Several aspects of the trip that were rebuilt include the reestablishment of communication between the partner organization, Pacific Dental Society, and Dugoni, the organization of the clinic flow, supply list, lodging, and transportation, as well as the implementation of financial protocols and a new application. After the first Guatemala service learning trip was successfully completed, the foundational framework that was established by the trip leaders was pivotal in the composition of the current Guatemala Service Learning Trip Guidebook. This resource serves as a testament to the work that was pioneered to aid successive generations in not only efficient and successful implementation of future Guatemala trips, but in hopes of each team achieving greater milestones than the year before. A big thank you to our administrative and faculty support, trip leads and attendees, Pacific Dental Services Foundation, and the Henry Schein Foundation.
Comments/Acknowledgements
Presentation Category: OKU Community Health Service & Leadership