Touro College of Dental Medicine’s Seven Advanced Standing Students Complete an Important Educational Milestone
January 09, 2023
Touro College of Dental Medicine’s Advanced Standing students successful the International Dentist Program received their achromatic coats connected December 14, 2022. Participants successful the ceremony, which took spot astatine the assemblage successful Hawthorne, New York, included the pursuing students (left to right): Priscila Pena Diaz; Drialys Felipe Rodriquez; Nancy Shailesh Doshi; Mozdeh Mematollahi; Ankita Patel; Harpreet Bajwa; and Lauren Castillo.
On December 14, 2022, 7 students successful Touro College of Dental Medicine’s Advanced Standing International Dentist Program (IDP), which began this past July, participated successful their achromatic overgarment ceremony, a rite of transition for aesculapian and dental students. During the ceremony, the students, who hail from 5 antithetic countries, donned their achromatic coats with the assistance of their module Clinical Practice Leaders, and recited the Touro College of Dental Medicine oath. The achromatic overgarment ceremonial signifies a dental student’s modulation from the midway constituent of their acquisition into their objective work. For our Advanced Standing IDP students it marks the further effort and clip they devoted to suffice for TCDM’s program.
Touro College of Dental Medicine’s Advanced Standing International Dentist Program is designed to supply qualified dentists educated extracurricular the United States with the acquisition and acquisition required to signifier dentistry successful the U.S. Participants gain a Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) grade pursuing an intensive, two-year didactic and objective program.
As a pupil successful this program, students statesman coursework with precocious standing, starting astatine the 3rd twelvemonth of the modular curriculum. After earning their D.D.S. degree, the IDP students are qualified to use to instrumentality their U.S. dental licensure exams.
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