The most
recent ADEA Academic Dental
Careers Fellowship Program (ADCFP) graduation took place at the 2024 ADEA Annual Session &
Exhibition in New Orleans,
LA.
Over
1,000 participants to date have graduated from the ADCFP program.
One institution
that had the most graduates is the University of Puerto Rico School of Dental
Medicine (UPR SDM).
“The UPR
ADEA ADCFP for the academic year 2024-25 has 44
students! The largest group since our first group in 2016,” said Damaris Molina-Negron, D.M.D., Assistant
Dean for Academic Affairs at UPR SDM and ADCFP Liaison.
ADCFP was founded at ADEA in 2006 with the goal of
discovering and growing tomorrow’s dental faculty and researchers by providing
current faculty with tools on how to mentor allied, advanced education and
predoctoral dental students and help them develop their plans for pursuing an
academic career.
The program provides each academic dental institution a
flexible framework that functions as a window for students into the “day-to-day”
life and experiences of dental faculty at academic dental institutions through
one-on-one mentorship. The ADCFP is a voluntary program offered by ADEA and
managed by an ADCFP Liaison located at each individual academic dental program.
For more information about ADCFP, please contact Renée Latimer, M.B.A., ADEA Senior
Director of Professional Development and Educational Technology, at Latimerr@adea.org.
Published on July 10, 2024