Around here, we often say, “The greatness of Pacific Dugoni is its people.” No one can imitate what we do because no one else has built, over decades, a group so completely dedicated to making its school great.
Competency and humanism: these sea changes in dental education both started at Pacific and have been nurtured here for more than 40 years. Today, they are standard operating requirements in every dental school in the United States.
Six Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry students spent a portion of their summer break participating in a student exchange pilot program with two Chinese dental schools.
Dental hygiene alumni are taking on leadership roles, teaching, mentoring and expanding the definition of what it means to be a dental hygienist.
The big sea of chairs in the school’s main clinic is about to change in a big way. So is the way that the school educates its dental students.
These days, the world is more open and competitive than ever before, and on its newly level, equal-opportunity playing field the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry lately has been busy exercising, reaching out in fresh, exciting directions.