ADEA Council, Section, and Special Interest Group Programs
A program presented by an ADEA disciplinary or interest group related to current trends in dental education and the area of discipline. These sessions are typically cross-disciplinary and appeal to all. Program length: 90 minutes.
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ADEA TechExpo Presentations
An ADEA TechExpo Presentation demonstrates computer-based technology applications used to support dental education, including enhancing educational and patient care programs and services. The ADEA TechExpo consists of tabletop demonstrations or presentations. This format is best suited for demonstration of software and hardware in an interactive one-to-one or small group setting. Program length: 3 hours.
Discourse & Dessert
An Evening Plenary on Gender Issues
This session brings together ADEA members and guests in an informal environment for socialization that focuses on gender issues and provides an opportunity for networking to enhance professional development. The guest speakers are people of achievement and power who contribute to the wellbeing of the communities they serve. The potential of women and men in the world order is enhanced by exposure to ideas and role models that use “big picture” strategies to affect all of mankind, especially the careers of women and minorities.
Faculty Development Workshops (FDW)
An FDW provides an active learning environment to learn about more effective assessment tools, enhance the scholarship of teaching and learning, investigate new strategies for professional development, explore change and innovation, develop new curricular strategies, or develop collaborative research models. FDW length: 3 hours.
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Lunch & Learns (L&L)
An L&L is an informal lunch discussion for as many as nine participants to examine critical issues facing the dental education community. These sessions demonstrate the potential for a lively, interactive group conversation as the outcome. L&L length: 1 hour. Each L&L will be offered twice.
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Members' Forum
The annual gathering of an ADEA Section or Special Interest Group during which new officers are elected, results of the group's activities for the past year are discussed, and general business and future planning takes place. All members, prospective members, and other individuals are invited to attend these meetings.
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New Idea Sessions
A New Idea Session allows presenters and participants to explore a newly formed idea. The New Idea Session is designed to pique participants’ interest and introduce unique, unusual, or innovative ideas. New Idea Session length: 25 minutes.
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Poster Presentations and Student Poster Presentations
Presented during Exhibition hours, Poster Presentations provide members the opportunity to discuss issues of mutual interest in three categories:
- New Programs
- Educational Research
- Works in Progress
A poster author may be the primary author of, at most, two poster abstracts. A special competition is also held for Student Poster Presentations. All poster abstracts, except for Works in Progress, will be published in the Journal of Dental Education.
Presidential Symposia
These are symposia selected by the ADEA President as programming that highlights the 2011 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition theme, Interprofessional Education: Teaching and Learning Together for Better Health, or is thought-provoking, relevant, and timely.
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ADEA SoTLfest
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTLfest) sessions examine how teaching is valued, assessed, and rewarded and how it contributes overall to the learning experience of students and educators. These sessions typically describe best practices in teaching, assessment, scholarship, proven ways of delivering ideas and knowledge, and increasing the quality of the teaching and learning experience.
Participants can be recognized for their participation in this track. To be eligible for an ADEA SoTLfest Certificate of Recognition, attendees must register in advance and attend one of the two required ADEA symposia Interprofessional Teaching and Learning: Scholarship for Better Health, or Introducing Interprofessional Education to Dentistry and Dentistry to Interprofessional Education, and three other SoTLfest-designated events.
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Symposia
A symposium specifically addresses a topic relevant to the theme of the 2011 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition, Interprofessional Education: Teaching and Learning Together for Better Health. Symposium length: 2 hours.
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