ADEA/WKKF access to dental careers program: Supporting a dental pipeline concept and program

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1166-1169

  Sinkford, Jeanne C ^a   Valachovic, Richard W ^b   Weaver, Richard G ^a   Harrison, Sonja G ^a  

^a American Dental Education Association   (United States)

^b American Dental Education Associa ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dental student recruitment; Low income students; Pipeline programs; Underrepresented minority students

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251603729     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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