Volunteering abroad

[denty]

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So I find that doctors without borders doesnt take dentists 🙁 so i was looking around for some other temp. employment/volunteering for pre-dent/dentists. For those interested

globe volunteers
http://www.globalvolunteers.org/1main/healthcare.htm

Rotary
http://www.ifrdv.org/index.html

An article with lots of other sites
http://www.dentaleditors.org/Article Library/galeone art1.htm

if you have had any experience or know of anyone please tell!

 

[amartins02]

Cool. Didn't know that. I wanted to do that after dental school. Hmmm, oh well. Good to know there are other options out there.

 

[eric275]

Here's a site I found that had quite a few links to dental volunteer organizations.
http://multicultural.uthscsa.edu/who/intlvolunteers.html

 

[denty]

Here's a site I found that had quite a few links to dental volunteer organizations.
http://multicultural.uthscsa.edu/who/intlvolunteers.html

Thanks! this is a really great site!

 

[Dr.BadVibes]

Here's a site I found that had quite a few links to dental volunteer organizations.
http://multicultural.uthscsa.edu/who/intlvolunteers.html

Hey eric....that is such an incredible, wonderful site! Kudos to you for the find! Ive been trying so long to find a good site with dental volunteer opportunities, but googling it didnt produce much.

 

[Dukie]

Hey eric....that is such an incredible, wonderful site! Kudos to you for the find! Ive been trying so long to find a good site with dental volunteer opportunities, but googling it didnt produce much.

Would a student (ie- one who didn't already have a DDS) be able to participate in any of these programs? I'd love to do something this summer...

 

[jav316]

thanks for posting 🙂

So I find that doctors without borders doesnt take dentists 🙁 so i was looking around for some other temp. employment/volunteering for pre-dent/dentists. For those interested

globe volunteers
http://www.globalvolunteers.org/1main/healthcare.htm

Rotary
http://www.ifrdv.org/index.html

An article with lots of other sites
http://www.dentaleditors.org/Article Library/galeone art1.htm

if you have had any experience or know of anyone please tell!

 

[jav316]

some of these are so pricey though - i went on a purely vacational tour of italy two years for less money. this is pretty discouraging. anybody have luck finding something short-term that is affordable? thanks 🙂

 

[denty]

some of these are so pricey though - i went on a purely vacational tour of italy two years for less money. this is pretty discouraging. anybody have luck finding something short-term that is affordable? thanks 🙂

Im having the same problem. its seems like you pay for a "mini-volunteer vacation" I know that some schools do have service work in other countries, and I know of some dentists and physicians that do some volunteering. I know that if you go through schools, you pay a chunk but there is a lot of petitioning of money and bake sales, etc to cut the price down