On November 20, the UMKC School of Dentistry welcomed 36 candidates for the Advanced Standing International Dental Program.
These candidates were selected from a pool of over 500 applicants and are spending 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.