Mentorship

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To help our students succeed, the Kornberg School of Dentistry places an emphasis on mentorship. We believe mentors to be vital to a happy, healthy and holistic dental school experience.

Mentorship is proven to relieve stress and anxiety for students by providing them with easily accessible resources, not just for information, but also for encouragement and support. As such, the school strives to help students access mentorships through lecture, lab, preclinic and clinical coursework.

Student Mentors

The Student Mentoring Program is designed to provide mentorship continuously throughout DMD students’ years in dental school and beyond. The program assists dental students in successfully coping with the kinds of issues and anxieties that occur while matriculating in dental school.

Preclinic Peer Mentors: Student mentors are selected and paired with incoming students. Mentors help incoming students through the orientation process and remain available to provide general information on how to navigate successfully throughout the DMD program.
Clinic Peer Mentors: Following the White Coat Ceremony in their second year, when students move on to clinical practice, new mentors are assigned to help navigate clinical work and boards testing.

Faculty Mentors

Alumni Mentors

Alumni mentors act as guides and a resource, sharing their dental school and professional experience with current Temple students. The main goal of an alumni mentor is to inspire personal growth; encourage a vision for the future; and promote cultural sensitivity, philanthropic awareness and volunteerism, which are all values reflected in the dental profession.

Mentors are made available to students in a variety of ways—including through the school’s Alumni Speaker Series—to help them manage their transition from undergraduate student to dental student, as well as help them enjoy the process.

White Coat Ceremony

The annual White Coat Ceremony is a significant moment for dental students and their families, and one of the most important milestones in a student’s academic career.

Each May, rising third-year students transition from preclinical lab work to clinical experience with patients. This transition is symbolized by the donning of the white coat during a formal ceremony, during which students sign and recite the Dentist’s Pledge.

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