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Our Goal
Our Goal
The Narratives and Medical Education (NAME) Project is a narrative dentistry and medical education project 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.
We achieve this goal through four main activities:
We achieve this goal through four main activities:
Created by Rob Crosswell from Noun Project
Oral Health Fairs at Public Libraries
Oral Health Fairs at Public Libraries
Connect community members in need of oral health care with resources and services
Provide experiential learning opportunities for journalism, pre-health, dental and dental hygiene students
Assist with community focus group recruitment
Created by Vectors Point from Noun Project
Focus Groups
Focus Groups
With dental and dental hygiene students to explore their experiences interacting with and treating patients from underserved racial and ethnic minority groups
With community members from underserved racial and ethnic minority groups to gain insights into their experiences accessing and receiving oral health care
Gain a clearer picture of oral health care needs of communities, barriers to accessing care and challenges in providing care to these populations
Created by Takao Umehara from Noun Project
Narrative Dentistry Workshops
Narrative Dentistry Workshops
Provide space for dental and dental hygiene students to respond to and reflect on narratives developed from focus group data
Enable dialogues around the systemic barriers to oral health care and establishing anti-racist, empathic oral health care
Created by Tippawan Sookruay from Noun Project
Database & Curriculum Development
Database & Curriculum Development
Create an open database to share the stories we gathered through this project and allow others to add theirs
Develop modules/activities for use with dental, dental hygiene, pre-health, public health and journalism students to explore themes around access to oral health care, equity in health care, oral health literacy and promotion, and health-related journalism
In collaboration with:
In collaboration with:
Funded by:
Funded by:
Important Disclaimer: The NAME Project is supported by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R21DE032161. The content on this website is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
With additional support from the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), Regions 1 & 5 and the University of Maryland Department of English Public Humanities Initiative
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