The UMKC School of Dentistry welcomed 36 candidates for the Advanced Standing Dental Program. The 36 candidates were chosen from over 240 applications and spent two days of lecture, interviews, tours and hands-on examination at the school in hopes to join the program.
The program will accept nine students and focuses on training dentists from foreign dental programs who desire to have a United States dental degree from a CODA approved institutional program.
It includes a semester-long didactic and laboratory orientation to the dental school. The cohort will then enter the third-year dental class during the summer term and complete the Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) curriculum.