UW rural dentistry program helping to fill vital need

For Washington | Dentists are in high demand everywhere, but especially in rural areas like Eastern and Central Washington. That's why the UW School of Dentistry created Regional Initiatives in Dentistry Education, or RIDE, more than a decade ago. It aims to offer practical training experience in rural community clinics, preparing UW graduates to practice outside of urban centers.

The program is using federal money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pay for technology to connect community clinics to UW dental specialists and to enhance the classroom experience for first-year RIDE students, who are based in a high-tech classroom on Eastern Washington University’s Spokane campus.

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