{"id":9892,"date":"2024-11-01T18:57:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T18:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2024-11-01T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T18:57:35","slug":"rural-dentist-education-to-grow-in-spokane-under-legislature-funding-and-new-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2024\/11\/01\/rural-dentist-education-to-grow-in-spokane-under-legislature-funding-and-new-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural dentist education to grow in Spokane under Legislature funding and new space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9894\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/11\/Rural-dentist-education-to-grow-in-Spokane-under-Legislature-funding-and-new-space-300x183.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/>Education to train dentists mainly for rural work is expanding this summer in Spokane in facility size and student numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Washington School of Dentistry will lease space for a new oral health training center to grow its Regional Initiatives in Dental Education program.Started in 2008, the program is a partnership of the UW dentistry school and Eastern Washington University to prepare future dentists to work in rural and underserved areas of the state where there are shortages.<\/p>\n<p>This spring, it received $2.5 million from the Legislature along with federal grants to expand the four-year program, doubling the number of students per year from eight to 16 \u2013 or 64 students once all cohorts are filled \u2013 and creating space for a second year in Spokane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2024\/oct\/26\/rural-dentist-education-to-grow-in-spokane-under-l\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article from the Spokesman Review here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wohw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9895,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions\/9895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}