Forty-seven Students Join the MS in Oral Health Sciences Class of 2025
The Master of Science in Oral Health Sciences (OHS) program welcomed 47 new students to its Class of 2025 during its Orientation event on Thursday, August 1.
This year’s class is represented by students from 13 different states, including 12 from Massachusetts and six each from California and New York. Six students are joining the cohort from Canada, with another three from China, the Philippines and South Korea. Twenty-five students in the incoming cohort graduated with undergraduate degrees in biology, with the remaining students graduating in other-science majors.
The OHS program at Graduate Medical Sciences is uniquely positioned to set its students up for success in dental school and beyond. It is one of the only pre-professional dental programs in the country that allows its MS students to take classes with first-year dental students. Starting on Monday, August 5, OHS students will join D1s at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) for classes including physiology and biochemistry.
Ninety percent of OHS graduates earn acceptance into dental school. Past alumni have gone on to dental programs here at BU and across the country at the University of Maryland, Tufts University, University of Michigan, Western University and more.
During Thursday’s Orientation, the new OHS cohort met each other for the first time and heard from program faculty and staff, such as Assistant Dean of Masters Programs and OHS Program Director Theresa Davies, PhD; Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics and OHS Assistant Director Aaron Young, PhD; OHS Senior Academic Program Manager Karen Bottenfield, PhD; and OHS Program Manager Andrew Best, MA.
Several GSDM faculty introduced themselves during the day’s program, including Associate Dean of Students Joseph Calabrese, DMD; Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Larry Dunham, DMD; and Assistant Dean of Admissions Robert Kasberg, PhD. The students met their course directors, program managers and heard a presentation on Managing Stress in Graduate School by Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry Jori Berger-Greenstein, PhD, from the GMS MA in Mental Health Counseling & Behavioral Medicine program.
GMS Student Affairs, Student Financial Services, the GMS Student Organization (GMSSO) and the Community Catalyst Center (C3) shared information and resources from their offices during the day.
At the end of the program, D1 OHS alums presented as part of the DentMent program, which allows them to mentor current OHS students during their studies. DentMent students gave tours of the BU Medical Campus to the new cohort to close out the day.
Learn more about the MS in Oral Health Sciences Program here! Check out a slideshow from Orientation below.
