The WLHSDM Office of Student Affairs will assist dental students with academic and personal support. We will review and facilitate options best suited to help our students maintain wellness and academic success.
WLHSDM College Mentors
WLHSDM students are divided into four learning communities that provide support to them throughout their dental education at TTUHSC El Paso. Each of the learning communities are led by college mentors who are dedicated to providing academic monitoring, advising, mentorship, career counseling and academic assistance as needed. The mentors collaborate with the Office of Student Affairs to ensure student success.
The WLHSDM Office of Student Affairs assists dental students with academic and personal support. We review and facilitate options best suited to help our students maintain wellness and academic success.
Tutoring
The Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine provides tutoring services to dental students through a peer mentoring program. The mentoring program provides structured study time with peers, review of subject material and learning strategies to gain a deeper understanding of supported course content. The peer mentors are selected from those upper class-men who have demonstrated exceptional interpersonal abilities and academic performance. A recommendation from the academic faculty is required for peer mentors to participate in the program. Recruitment and hiring is based on need, and qualified applicants are contacted directly to move forward in the recruitment process. These student employees provide individual and small group tutoring sessions to dental students who desire supplemental support.
All WLHSDM students are eligible to receive assistance through the mentoring program regardless of the subject, level of ability, or need for learning accommodations. The WLHSDM peer mentoring program promotes a welcoming environment where dental students are able to foster a welcoming atmosphere where dental students can improve their knowledge of dental principles and practices through instruction from their peers.
For further inquiries or information about the program, please reach out to WLHSDM Office of Student Affairs at HuntSDM.sa.ELP@ttuhsc.edu.
Accessibility Services
Accessibility Services is dedicated to ensuring equal access to learning opportunities for all students with documented disabilities (such as mental health, attentional, learning, chronic health, sensory, or physical challenges). Accommodations are not provided retroactively, so students are urged to register as soon as they commence their academic program. TTUHSC El Paso encourages students to utilize all available resources for consistent support and accommodations. For further details about the services provided to students at TTUHSC El Paso, please visit the Academic Success and Accessibility Office website. For assistance with disabilities, please contact:
Norma Fuentes
Manager of Accessibility Services
Office of Student Services and Student Engagement
Libraries
The TTUHSC El Paso Libraries are located in three buildings on opposite ends of the campus.
The Delia Montes-Gallo Library is located on the first floor of the Academic Education Center (AEC) building across from Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso (4801 Alberta Avenue). The AEC library has study carrels, a copier, and a computer room with both PCs and Macs. This location provides 24/7 access to students with their TTUHSC El Paso badge.
The Doris F. Eisenberg Library is located on the second floor of the Medical Education Building (MEB). This location has a “quiet room,” a conference room and a study room. There are also three small group study rooms located directly outside of the MEB library. Computer stations are available for use as well (both PC and Mac). In addition, the MEB Library provides students with 24/7 access to study carrels and tables at which students may study and connect to the network via Ethernet cables or Wi-Fi.
The MSBII Library is located on the first floor of the Medical Sciences Building (MSB) II. This location has wifi, individual study spaces with their own AC ad USB power, as well as two study rooms inside the library and another 3 outside the library. The study rooms are available and must be reserved via the library’s webpage. In addition to the study rooms there is a quiet room for mediation/reflection, which is also located in the hallway outside the library. Computers and printers are available to all TTUHSC El Paso students. This location provides 24/7 access to students with their TTUHSC El Paso badge.
The library’s staffed hours are as follows:
AEC library: M-F 7:30 am-5:00 pm
MEB library: M-F 7:30 am- 11:00 pm; Sat 10:00 am-11:00 pm; Sun 1:00 pm- 11:00 pm
MSB II library: Please visit website for current hours of operation.
Please visit the libraries’ website at http://elpaso.ttuhsc.edu/libraries/ for detailed information including up-to-date staffing hours and access to thousands of electronic resources.
Some of the services available to students, faculty and staff include:
- Reference assistance - both in-person (M-F 8:00 am-5:00 pm) and online
- Interlibrary loan
- Library instruction classes (individual or group)
- Delivery of print materials from the libraries’ remote storage location.
Office of Financial Aid
The Financial Aid Office is here to support your dental education financing needs and offer guidance on managing dental school debt. Visit https://elpaso.ttuhsc.edu/studentservices/ Financial-Aid/default.aspx for comprehensive information on various financial aid options, entrance counseling, emergency loans, and procedures for enrollment changes like leaves of absence, withdrawals, or tuition refund requests. If you have any inquiries about financing your dental education, please reach out to:
Ron Williams, Director of Financial Aid, at 915-215-6641 or Ron.Williams@ttuhsc.edu or Araceli Moreno, Associate Director of VA/Financial Aid, at 915-215-5602 or Araceli.B.Moreno@ttuhsc.edu.
Active/Military Reserve
We appreciate the service and sacrifice of our veterans. The Veterans Affairs Office is here to assist our students with their VA educational benefits, both federal and state. We are here to ensure that all the necessary documents are submitted to the Department of Veterans Affairs and to certify students’ enrollment. Please contact the Associate Director, Araceli Moreno at 915-215- 5602 or visit our website at
http://elpaso.ttuhsc.edu/studentservices/veteransAffairs.aspx
Dental Ergonomics
As part of the curriculum, a partnership with the University of Texas of El Paso (UTEP) Department of Physical Therapy may be created in order to have students from the UTEP Physical Therapy department come and teach WLHSDM students regarding ergonomics with specific focus on clinical care.
The purpose of introducing ergonomics into the dental curriculum is to train dental students to maintain health and safety in the workplace while maintaining efficiency in their job performance. The introduction of ergonomics to dental students will come as early as the time in which students spend in simulation in order to receive proper training prior to treating patients in clinic.
For more information regarding the potential partnership, please visit https://www.utep.edu/chs/pt/ or https://www.utep.edu/chs/pt/people/faculty-and-staff.html
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