Dental hygiene educators from European countries with growing immigrant populations were among those gathered last April in Amsterdam to learn how NYUCD trains dental hygiene students to communicate with its ethnically diverse patient population. The occasion was “International Week,” an annual event sponsored by InHolland University’s dental hygiene school. Professor Cheryl Westphal, Assistant Dean for Allied Health Programs and Director of the Dental Hygiene Program, described patient-care scenarios that students encounter in NYUCD’s cultural sensitivity training program — a mandatory part of the curriculum. A second presentation, by Ms. Janet Tuthill, Clinical Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Dental Hygiene Program, described how NYUCD has integrated dental hygiene student training with DDS clinical training, offering a potential model for the European schools.