The Academic Dental Careers Fellowship Program began in 2006 with five goals:
- Implement a year-long fellowship experience that provides 10 U.S. and Canadian dental students annually with training, mentorship, and hands-on experiences in research, teaching, and other aspects of academic careers in dental schools.
- Provide the ADCFP Fellows (through the fellowship activities at their respective schools) and other dental students (through seminars at the annual ADEA and AADR meetings) with information and perspectives that will assist them in making informed choices about dental careers, including options for academic careers.
- Provide a cadre of dental school faculty with the skills to function as academic career mentors for the ADCFP Fellows and other dental students and as role models related to the research and teaching components of the faculty member’s responsibilities.
- Provide ADCFP Fellows with opportunities to network with dental school administrators and faculty.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the ADCFP by collecting data to measure primary and secondary outcomes, with emphasis on: (a) the percentage of ADCFP Fellows who join dental school faculties within five years of graduation and (b) the percentage of student participants at academic career seminars who join dental school faculties within five years of graduation.
- In 2009, the Fellowship was expanded to include allied dental students. The first allied dental student participated last year.
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