Community Involvement

MEDAL

• MEDAL (Medicine, Engineering, Dentistry, Architecture, and Law) is a local outreach program for minority disadvantaged high school students in grades 9-12.

The program provides an opportunity for participanting students to gain knowledge in Medicine, Engineering, Dentistry, Architecture, or Law professions. This is accomplished through:

1. Academic and enrichment activities designed to help close the achievement gap between economically disadvantaged students and their peers. 
   
   
2. Recruitment of Metropolitan Milwaukee area high school students who qualify for free or reduced lunch and  who have an interest in and potential to pursue a college education in the aforementioned areas.
   
   
3. Reinforcement in basic skills and competencies such as reading, writing, speaking, listening, mathematics and reasoning.
   
   
4. Providing information to parents and students on preparing for and financing college.
   
   
5. Providing opportunities for students to be exposed to college life.

Program Partners

Marquette's School of Dentistry participates in the MEDAL program in conjunction with the Department of Public Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Public Schools, Marquette University, and the Milwaukee Area Health Education Center.

Smiles for the Future

• OMA sponsors the Smiles for the Future program, an outreach program where Marquette University School of Dentistry students visit Milwaukee inner city elementary and middle schools to provide disadvantaged students with oral health care.