Each year, UMSOD students contribute thousands of hours of community service, demonstrating an exceptional commitment to serving local communities and improving access to oral health education and care. The Office of Student Affairs (OSA) supports individual students and student groups in their community service efforts by providing service referrals, allocating supplies for clinical/educational service activities, and facilitating service event registration. In partnership with the Student Government Association (SGA) and DDS class leadership, OSA has developed efficient procedures to submit, review, track, and report community service engagement. , students must be personally and actively engaged in providing a service, support, education, outreach, or assistance and submit a signed service reporting form.
Community Service Reporting Form
Community service is the voluntary contribution of time, skills, and effort to activities that directly benefit individuals, organizations, or communities in need in the state of Maryland or through designated service opportunities at UMSOD. To receive community service credit, students must be personally and actively engaged in providing a service, support, education, outreach, or assistance and submit a signed service reporting form.
Students should be actively engaged in providing:
Examples of eligible activities include:
The Office of Student Affairs does not collect or consider the activities below in our review of community service hours:
