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CODE Staff’s Trauma-Informed Care Supports HIV/AIDS Patients

Carrie Stetler | November 4, 2021

You don’t need to know a patient’s history to practice trauma-informed care, according to Dr. Jill York, Director of Extra Mural Clinics, who runs RSDM’s Community-Oriented Dental Education (CODE) program. The large and small acts of concern and sensitivity staff and providers have integrated into the South Jersey clinics can make everyone feel comfortable and welcome.

RSDM Partners With Horizon to Create Scholarship for Underrepresented Minority Students

Carrie Stetler | October 5, 2021

Horizon and RSDM have joined forces to create the Horizon Endowed Scholarship, an effort to boost dental school enrollment among underrepresented students of color in New Jersey.

RSDM Team Treats Native American Patients at South Dakota Clinic

Carrie Stetler | September 7, 2021

After their trip was cancelled last year due to COVID-19, RSDM students and faculty returned to the Black Hills of South Dakota recently to treat Native American patients at a federal Indian Health Services clinic.

RSDM Program Offers Dental Care to Holocaust Survivors

Carrie Stetler | August 5, 2021

After the Nazis invaded France when she was a little girl, Helen Bright survived the Holocaust by staying with a series of rural families who were paid to harbor Jewish children. Bright is one of nearly a dozen Holocaust survivors receiving free oral healthcare as part of a partnership with the Jewish Federation of Metrowest, NJ.

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