All by Ji-Yun Stephanie Yeung
Barts Communities Smiles is a QMSU volunteering group that aims to raise oral health awareness in Tower Hamlets and beyond. Barts and The London Dental students deliver basic oral health promotion in a number of different community settings, including outreach health centres and schools.
There is perhaps no profession held more strictly to their own standards than healthcare workers. From shrewd passer-by gazes on scrub-wearing smokers, to light-hearted jibes at the dentist deliberating over the sugar-laden dessert menu, the expectation to walk the walk is evident.
Recently I’ve been thinking about the people, places and experiences that have nurtured my growth throughout dental school. Pulling it all together, a common thread comes to the forefront, having shaped not only the dental student I’ve come to be, but also the identity I’ve come to inhabit. This impact has been made by volunteering.
