The NAME Project: A Narrative Dentistry and Medical Education Project

少数种族和少数民族的口腔保健结果在以下人群之间存在明显差异： 能够获得定期的牙科护理，社区努力获得基本的，有时是挽救生命的服务， 治疗将在牙科保健的背景下探讨公共卫生挑战。的 叙事和医学教育（·）项目的重点是理解和应对种族主义， 牙科保健，通过产生一个创新的，可复制的社区参与模式，打破无效的 该项目旨在加强传统护理系统的能力，并努力了解边缘化社区的经历。资产和 将利用社会生态模型对服务不足的社区进行需求评估 种族和少数民族的潜在患者。对传统护理地点的破坏， 牙科诊所、诊所及医院的公共图书馆。这些社区空间位于美国各地 国家是为数不多的为所有人提供免费和无障碍入境的地方之一。我们的目标是 证明利用公共图书馆作为替代，中立和安全的空间的有效性， 服务不足的种族和少数民族潜在患者：1）获得有关现有当地 牙科保健服务，并学习如何导航和获得这些服务;和2）参与 见习医生-牙科学博士前学生及牙齿卫生学学生;及3）分享他们的故事 新闻学和牙医预科/健康专业的学生。在公共图书馆举办的健康博览会将提供 为牙科及牙齿卫生学生提供服务学习及社区参与的机会。 牙科和牙科卫生学生在与不同社区的工作经验将被捕获 通过焦点小组。社区参与活动后，反思实践的过程将是 介绍了在叙事牙科讲习班与预科牙科学生和牙齿卫生学生， 导致创建叙事牙科模块，可以纳入牙科保健培训 课程。

Oral healthcare outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities present a stark divide between populations who are able to access regular dental care, and communities struggling to receive basic and sometimes life saving treatment. The public health challe1ru&Macism will be explored within the context of dental care. The Narratives and Medical Education ( • ) project is focused on understanding and responding to racism in dental care by generating an innovative, replicable community-engagement model that disrupts ineffective traditional systems of care and seeks to understand the experiences of marginalized communities. Asset and socio-ecological models will be utilized to conduct needs assessments among communities with underserved racial and ethnic minority prospective patients. The disruptor to traditional locations of care that takes place in dental offices, clinics and hospitals is public libraries. These community spaces located across the United States are one of the few remaining places that provide free and accessible entry for all individuals. We aim to demonstrate the effectiveness of utilizing public libraries as alternative, neutral, and safe spaces for underserved racial and ethnic minority prospective patients to: 1) acquire new information about existing local dental care services and to learn how to navigate and gain access to these services; and 2) to engage with trainee practitioners - predoctoral dental students and dental hygiene students; and 3) to share their stories with journalism and pre-dentistry/health students. Health fairs hosted at public libraries will provide an opportunity for service learning and community engagement for trainee dental and dental hygiene students. The experience of dental and dental hygiene students in working with diverse communities will be captured through focus groups. Post community engagement activities, the process of reflective practice will be introduced in narrative dentistry workshops with predoctoral dental students and dental hygiene students, leading to the creation of narrative dentistry modules that could be incorporated into dental health care training curriculum.