Dalhousie College President Dr. Kim Brookes lately toured the College of Dentistry’s Authorities Assisted Populations (GAP) Oral Well being Clinic, which serves new Canadians in want of oral well being care.
The GAP Clinic companions with the Immigrant Providers Affiliation of Nova Scotia to supply dentistry to new immigrants to the province. Many sufferers obtain their first-ever dental exams on the clinic. The care is offered by dentistry and dental hygiene college students and college. It’s funded by Dalhousie alum, previous school members and donor Susan Keating-Bekkers.
Not solely does the clinic present important oral well being therapy for thus many sufferers, it is usually an ideal studying alternative for college students to achieve confidence with hands-on expertise amongst a various group of sufferers.
“Take into consideration how these interactions change who these college students are and what they care about,” Dr. Brooks says. “It allows them to suppose extra about who their sufferers are and the way they will talk with them extra successfully. Which means higher, extra empathetic, and extra inclusive care.”
