Dentist - Education
- American Dental Association. (n.d.) Survey of New Dental Education Series. Chicago, IL: ADA Press.
Based on an annual survey of all dental schools and educational programs accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation, this series of five volumes of reports deals with general information, student and graduate data, curriculum, and financial management of dental schools in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
- American Dental Association. (n.d.) Survey of Dental Graduates. Chicago, IL: ADA Press.
“Provides information on dental school graduates one year out of dental school. Often compared to other recent dental graduate information.”
- American Dental Association. April 2006. 2004-05 Survey of Dental Education –Volume 1: Academic Programs, Enrollment and Graduates. Chicago, IL: ADA Press.
“This report provides statistical information on academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment and graduate levels, tuition costs, and faculty.”
- DePaola, Dominick P., and Harold C. Slavkin. November 2004. Reforming Dental Health Professions Education: A White Paper. Journal of Dental Education 68(11): 1139–50. [Online, accessed 11/21/06.]
Available: http://www.jdentaled.org/cgi/reprint/68/11/1139
This article advances an argument and a national strategy that can enable major reforms in the oral health education system and suggests that major revisions can result in an outcome-based education system that prepares oral health professionals to meet both the needs of patients/families/communities and the requirements of a changing health system.
- Haden, N. Karl, Phyllis L. Beemsterboer, Richard G. Weaver, and Richard W. Valachovic. September 2000. Dental School Faculty Shortages Increase: An Update on Future Dental School Faculty. Journal of Dental Education 64(9): 657–73. [Online, accessed 11/20/06.]
Available: http://www.adea.org/DEPR/associationreport.pdf
“The 1999 publication of the American Association of Dental Schools (AADS) Presidents Task Force on Future Dental School Faculty revealed a crisis in the shortages of dental school faculty. …The American Dental Education Association (ADEA), formerly AADS, gathered additional data through a new survey of dental school deans to elucidate the current state of faculty shortages.”
- Haden, N. Karl, Richard G. Weaver, and Richard W. Valachovic. September 2002. Meeting the Demand for Future Dental School Faculty: Trends, Challenges, and Responses. Journal of Dental Education 66(9): 1102–13. [Online, accessed 11/20/06.]
“This report presents data from ADEA’s 2001–2002 survey of vacant budgeted. faculty positions and examines challenges likely to exacerbate faculty shortages in the immediate future.”
- Russinof, Hollis, Judith Cooksey, Indru Punwani, Zakaria Messieha, et al. March 2000. Plans of Dentist Completing Advanced Training in Illinois. Chicago, IL: Illinois Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Chicago.
Available: http://www.uic.edu/sph/ichws/plans%20of%20dent%20hr.pdf
“This study examined the plans of dentists completing training in advanced general dentistry (general practice residency, GPR, or advanced education in general dentistry, AEGID) and pediatric dentistry programs in Illinois in 1999. The purpose of the study was to describe the trainees and their practice plans, and to assess how the trainees judged their preparation to provide care to various groups of patients.”
- Shepherd, Kathi, Patricia Nihill, Ronald W. Botto, and Melanie W. McCarthy. September 2001. Factors Influencing Pursuit and Satisfaction of Academic Dentistry Careers: Perceptions of New Dental Educators. Journal of Dental Education 65(9): 841-48. [Online, accessed 11/20/06.]
“New dental educators (n = 280) with zero to five years full-time teaching experience were surveyed to ascertain their perceptions regarding salary, work environment, and workload to determine the impact of these factors on faculty recruitment and retention.”
- Weaver, Richard G., Karl Haden, and Richard W. Valachovic. November 2001. Dental School Vacant Budgeted Faculty Positions: Academic Year 2000–2001. Journal of Dental Education 65(11): 1291–302. [Online, accessed 11/20/06.]
“The 1999 Report of the AADS President’s Task Force on the Future of Dental School Faculty (1) drew attention to the situation dental schools are experiencing in attracting and retaining faculty.… The year 2000–2001 ADEA survey of vacant budgeted positions indicates a further four percent increase in vacant budgeted positions”
- Weaver, Richard G., N. Karl Haden, and Richard W. Valachovic. December 2002. Annual ADEA survey of dental school seniors: 2002 graduating class. Journal of Dental Education 66(12): 1388–404. [Online, accessed 11/20/06.]
“The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) conducts an annual survey of graduating seniors to obtain information about their financing of dental education, graduating indebtedness, practice and postdoctoral education plans following graduation, decision factors that influenced postgraduation plans, and impressions on the adequacy of time directed to various areas of predoctoral instruction.”
