The OutLook For New Dental Grads Seems To Be Increasing With This New Dental School And Graduates Can Get Dental Practice Loans For New Graduates Upon Graduating!
Tazewell Dental School pulls in new growth
"Bringing more dentists into the region and fueling economic growth are two goals behind a drive to establish a new dental school at the Bluestone Regional Business and Technology Park..."
A memorandum of understanding was signed Friday during an outdoor ceremony on the future school’s site at The Bluestone. Bluefield College, the Tazewell County Board of Supervisors, and the Tazewell County Industrial Development Authority are collaborating on the project.
The new school, which could start enrolling student by the fall of 2015, will help address the growing shortage of dentists in Appalachia, said Dr. David Olive, president of Bluefield College.
“Dentists and professional dental care are limited in Central Appalachia, but this new dental school will address that problem and begin to fill our understaffed clinics with the personnel needed to provide rural residents with sufficient oral care,” Olive said.
One goal of the school is to have third- and fourth-year students work in rural clinics to help provide dental care in under-served areas, Olive said.
Bringing an entity like the dental school into The Bluestone will help boost the economy both in Tazewell County and the surrounding region, said Tazewell Administrator Jim Spencer.
“As I’ve said many times, the education-lead economic development is powerful,” Spencer said. He compared the potential to the economic growth seen around the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.
“You can see what has happened around that campus, and we can replicate that same model here with a partnership we’ve established with Bluefield College,” Spencer said. He outlined some of The Bluestone’s history for the audience.
Conclusion: Dental sudents have more options today with the opening of this new dental school and to offer third and fouth year students to work in dental clinics for additional training!
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