MedEdPORTAL? Update: June 2021
- ADEA Explores the Impact of COVID-19 on U.S. Dental Schools
- Boston University Henry M. Goldman SDM Appoints Dean ad interim
- ADEAGies Foundation Call for Letters of Intent Is Now Open
- Financial Aid and the FAFSA
- Positions Available?August 2021
- Encourage Your U.S. Dental School Seniors to Complete the ADEA Senior Survey
- Dr. Carroll Ann Trotman Named Dean of The Ohio State University COD
- Defining a New Track?A Strategic Focus for UBC Dentistry
- University of British Columbia FOD Celebrates Teaching Excellence
- Loma Linda University SD Professor Awarded $1.2M NIH K23 Grant
- Dental Hygiene Students Expand Education and Address Community Health Needs
- Prof. Wanda Cloet Receives Outstanding Service Award From Central Community College
- Work Now, Chill Later: Preparing for the ADEA AADSAS Application
- Researchers Determine Best Ways to Decrease Aerosols Amid Pandemic
- Academic Administrators, Apply for the IPEC Leadership Development Program
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, SDM Welcomes Dr. Rosemary P. McPharlin
- Positions Available?June 2021
- How COVID-19 Impacts U.S. Dental Schools
- ADEA Urges COVID-19 Vaccine for Dental Schools, Programs
- New Mexico State University ? Do?a Ana Community College Perseveres Through Pandemic
- Call for Nominations for Chair-elect of the 2022-23 ADEA Board of Directors
- Dr. Linda Boyd Appointed to JDE Editorial Review Board
- Positions Available?May 2021
- Santa Fe Community College Honors Students at Pinning Ceremony
- Central Community College Introduces 3D Technology
- Volunteers Hold Free Dental Day for Arizona Veterans
- 2021 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition Early Bird Rate Available Through Feb. 19
- 2021 Interprofessional Educational Collaborative (IPEC) Institute: Super Early Bird Registration Ends Jan. 15
- New Education Series Works to Improve Access to Care for Persons With Disabilities
- Congratulations to the 2021 #IamADEA Contest Winners
- Tufts University SDM Hosts Virtual Wellness Sessions to Ease Pandemic Anxiety
- Dr. Nicole Kimmes Named Interim Dean at University of New England CDM
- The Challenges of the ?Career Changer?
- Researcher Secures Patents for Innovative Student Assessment Technology
- Apply for ADEA Leadership Essentials for Allied Dental Educators (ADEA LEADE), Summer 2021
- Positions Available?February 2021
- What?s New on ADEA Connect?
- ADEA Releases Dentists of Tomorrow 2020
- University of Southern Indiana Dental Hygiene Students Address Food Insecurity
- This Month: Registration to Open for ADEA Fall Events
- Academic Integrity: How a Dental Hygiene Program Tackled Virtual Proctors
- Fostering International Dental Hygiene Education During a Pandemic
- Dr. George Blue Spruce Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
- Palm Beach State Dental Health Programs Adapt to New Normal
- Helping Dental Organizations Communicate With Their Members and Publics
- Make Yourself a More Competitive Applicant During Your Predental Summers
- Antibiotic Overprescription: Policy Considerations for Academic Dentistry
- Bringing Smiles Dental Enrichment Program
- ADEA Releases New Data on 2020 U.S. Dental School Applicants and Enrollees
- Program Targets Oral Health Care for Low-income Pregnant Women
- Dr. Marnie Oakley Named Interim Dean, University of Pittsburgh SDM
- Registration Opens Soon for the 2021 ADEA Allied Dental Program Directors? Conference
- Grant Promotes Oral Health Care Among Older Adults
- ADEA Announces Dr. Nader A. Nadershahi Chair-elect of the 2021-22 ADEA Board of Directors
- Health Professions Students Sharpen Collaborative Skills Through IPE
- Prof. Salima Alibhai Named a Changemaker by University of Washington School of Public Health
- Dugoni School Launches ?Dental Care is Essential Care? Public Service Campaign
- University of British Columbia FOD Researcher Helps Map the Human Proteome
- Celebrate the 2021 Gies Award Honorees! Gies @Home Awards Gala, March 12
- Finances and Other Important Decisions for Dental School Applicants
- New Video Series! Dental School and the Pandemic
- Opening Soon: Applications for ADEA Appointments and Nominations
- Prof. Victoria Patrounova Assumes New Role as Dental Hygiene Program Director
- Save the Date! April 28 Is 2021 ADEA Capitol Hill Day
- Positions Available?September 2021
- Apply for the ADEA Allied Dental Faculty Leadership Development Program by April 2
- Seattle Central College Welcomes New Faculty
- ADEA Welcomes Our Newest Members?May 2021
- Recipients of the 2021 Colgate Award for Research Excellence Announced
- ADEA Announces Winners of #ADEAConnectOneYear Contest and ADEA Connect Member Awards
- University of British Columbia FD Looks Forward to Fall Classes
- Spread the Word: 2021 ADEA GoDental Virtual Fair Starts Next Week!
- Student Stories In Their Own Words During a Pandemic
- New Educational Home for Alaska?s Dental Therapists Expands Training Capacity and Access
- Register for the Next IPEC Institute
- COVID-19 Brings to Light Inextricable Connection Between Dentistry and Medical Care
- Virginia Commonwealth University SOD Launches M.S. in Oral Biology
- Oklahoma University COD Announces Plans to Expand to Tulsa
- Call for Programs and Reviewers: 2022 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition
- September 2021: MedEdPORTAL? Update
- ADEA/ADHA Graduate Dental Hygiene Program Aims and Outcomes Released
- Feb. 24: FREE Virtual Event for Internationally Educated Dental Graduates
- Share Your #IamADEA Story on Social Media Today and Win Prizes!
- ADEA Publishes Policy Brief on Combatting Antibiotic Resistance
- March 2021: MedEdPORTAL? Update
- Early-career Faculty: Register for the ADEA Emerging Leaders Program
- East Carolina University SDM Names Inaugural Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- On-demand: 2021 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition Key Takeaways and 80+ Sessions
- Financing Your Dental School Education: How Student Loans Work
- University of the Pacific Launches Certificate Programs for Dental Educators
- Dr. Sreenivas Koka Named Dean of University of Mississippi Medical Center SOD
- Dr. Lynne Opperman Named Interim Dean of Texas A&M Dentistry
- Liaison International Recognizes Dr. Karen West
- University of British Columbia FOD Student and Faculty Receive Colgate Awards
- ATSU Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health Opens Orofacial Pain, Oral Medicine and Dental Sleep Solutions Institute
- Positions Available?July 2021
- MedEdPORTAL? Update: June 2021
- Dr. Stephen Pachuta Named Dean of West Virginia University SOD
- Community, Students Benefit from Low-cost Care at New Concorde-Kansas City Campus
- Save the Date: 2021 ADEA Allied Dental Program Directors? Conference Is June 5?7 (Virtual)
- Positions Available?January 2021
- Dental Anesthesiology Residents on the Front Line in the Operating Room
- Positions Available?March 2021
- Two ADA Webinars Available to ADEA Members
- Dugoni School Holds COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic for the IDD Community
- ADEA Connect Library Undergoes a Redesign
- Seattle Central College Dental Hygiene Students Awarded Scholarships From Willamette Dental Group
- ADEA Publishes Online JDE Supplement of Advancing Through Innovation Articles
- UT Health San Antonio SOD Awarded HRSA Grant
- EatMoveGrow: A Partnership for Children
- Preparing for the ADEA AADSAS Application
- Pen to Paper: Working With Mentors, Students Gain Research and Writing Experience
MedEdPORTAL® and ADEA invite educators to submit stand-alone teaching or learning modules that have been tested in the classroom, preclinical laboratory or clinic educational materials that aim to improve patient care. The learners must include training or practicing physicians or dentists (e.g., professional school, residency, faculty development, continuing professional development) and may include trainees or practitioners across the health professions.
MedEdPORTAL’s vision is to:
- Serve as the premier clearinghouse of high-quality, peer-reviewed health education tools;
- Promote interprofessional collaboration by facilitating the open exchange of educational resources across the health professions; and
- Equip health professionals across the continuum with effective and efficient educational resources to improve patient care.
Special Collections
In addition to general submissions focused on dental and medical education, MedEdPORTAL invites authors to submit their works for publication to the following Special Collections:
Call for Submissions: Emerging Didactic and Clinical Technologies in Dental Education Collection
The number of emerging technologies that have the potential to improve educational delivery and patient care in dental medicine is expanding at a rapid rate. Academic dentistry should be leading efforts in this area to advance clinically focused teaching and promote research into innovations intended to improve patient outcomes. Examples include genomic dental medicine, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, advanced diagnostic technologies, classroom learning technologies, virtual reality, computer-assisted design/computer-assisted manufacturing, robotics, digital treatment planning, emerging technologic approaches to disease diagnosis and management, biomaterial engineering, electronic health record advances and artificial intelligence. Incorporating these emerging didactic and clinical technologies into the classroom is critical to the education of future dentists.
For questions related to this Call for Submissions, please contact Paul C. Edwards, D.D.S., M.Sc., MedEdPORTAL Associate Editor, at pcedward@iu.edu.
Call for Submissions: Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity Collection
MedEdPORTAL’s Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity Collection, co-sponsored with ADEA, features peer-reviewed educational resources for educators to advance institutional efforts in creating a diverse and inclusive culture and climate for all in order to drive clinical, educational, research and service excellence.
Featured MedEdPORTAL Publications
Highlights of recent MedEdPORTAL publications of interest to the dental education community. These resources, selected by Dr. Edwards, MedEdPORTAL’s Associate Editor for ADEA, cover a range of topics published as stand-alone teaching or learning modules that have been implemented and evaluated in health education settings.
Words Matter: An Antibias Workshop for Health Care Professionals to Reduce Stigmatizing Language
Julia Raney, M.D.; Ria Pal, M.D.; Tiffany Lee, M.D.; Samuel Ricardo Saenz, M.D. M.P.H.; Devika Bhushan, M.D.; Peter Leahy, M.D.; Carrie Johnson, M.B.A.; Cynthia Kapphahn, M.D., M.P.H.; Michael A. Gisondi, M.D.; Kim Hoang, M.D.
In the health care setting, biased language negatively impacts patients’ perceptions of the quality of their care and decreases motivation to follow through with treatment. The authors describe the implementation of an antibias workshop that addresses stigmatizing language in both medical records and in the clinical setting by means of a 90-minute workshop. This educational module includes a full complement of resources needed to implement this workshop in the health care setting, including a facilitator’s guide and detailed agenda, a PowerPoint presentation containing presenter notes and an overview of biased language, a written dialogue for a simulated case presentation demonstrating the use of biased language in the clinical setting, and a Mindful Language Toolkit that provides an overview of important questions to consider, a comparison of attitudes that communicate bias versus neutrality in the written medical record and general tips. The workshop is supplemented by the inclusion of instructions for facilitating group discussions to practice these new skills.
Avoiding Death by Meeting: An Interactive Workshop for Academic Faculty Highlighting Strategies to Facilitate Effective Team MeetingsSarah Merriam, M.D., M.S.; Allison DeKosky, M.D.; Andrew Klein, M.D., M.S.; Jennifer Rodriguez, M.D., M.S.; Melissa McNeil, M.D., M.P.H.; Anna Donovan, M.D., M.S.
Effective team meetings are critical for organizational development. However, many meetings in the university and health care setting re of limited effectiveness. The authors developed a workshop to introduce health care leaders to the skills needed to effectively lead various types of team meetings, encourage engagement, and troubleshoot challenging personalities. This educational module comprises a complete set of resources needed to implement this workshop, including a facilitator guide, a detailed presenter agenda, PowerPoint slide decks and videos highlighting ineffective practices for use in facilitating interactive small-group discussions and a concluding video demonstrating best practices and strategies.
Virtual Interactive Case-Based Education (VICE): A Conference for Deliberate Practice of Diagnostic Reasoning
Alexander A. Logan, M.D.; Mayuree Rao, M.D.; Paul B. Cornia, M.D.; Scott L. Hagan, M.D.; Thomas A. Newman, M.D.; Jeffrey W. Redinger, M.D.; Jessica Woan, M.D.; Tyler J. Albert, M.D.
Developing diagnostic reasoning skills in the health care student is critical to reducing diagnostic errors. The authors established a facilitator-led virtual interactive case-based educational conference (VICE) model for practicing diagnostic reasoning skills and helping the student clinician examine how biases can affect the development of a differential diagnosis. The authors modeled their approach on the New England Journal of Medicine’s weekly “Clinical Problem Solving” case series. This education module includes a written facilitator guide and video with detailed instructions and tips for implementing this educational approach, a series of 20 internal medicine-focused PowerPoint cases and a template for developing additional clinical case scenarios.
MedEdPORTAL is a peer-reviewed journal of teaching and learning resources in the health professions published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in partnership with the American Dental Education Association.