Seq #201 Saturday, 11 March 2006
1:30 PM-3:30 PM Swan Hotel 6, Symposium
[ADEA] Institutional Vitality, Financial Health, and the System of Dental Education

Sponsored by: ADEA
Description: The Josiah Macy Foundation provides grants to assist health professional schools understand complex environments in which they function and identify future directions for education systems. In 1997, the Foundation funded a study to investigate the role of community-based clinical/dental education. Several papers from that study were published in the Journal of Dental Education and described how some dental schools used community sites to educate students, and how programs were managed. The conclusion of that project was a major stimulus for the Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education program funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in cooperation with The California Endowment and The W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The Macy Foundation has provided a grant, funded in June 2004, aimed at assessing the financial structure and system of dental education for the next decade and articulation of various strategies for meeting the overall mission during increasingly challenging times. The Macy Study includes a financial trends analysis and review of strategic recommendations from Dental Education at the Crossroads (1995, IOM), the Future of Dentistry Report (ADA, 2001), and the Presidential Commission on Improving the Oral Health Status of all Americans: Roles and Responsibilities of Academic Dental Institutions (ADEA, 2003). The symposium will discuss financial trend analyses and potential benefits of two models/strategies to improve finances and sustain institutional and academic vitality of a scientifically based profession
 
1706  1:30 PM Institutional Vitality, Financial Health and the Systems of Dental Education
H. BAILIT, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA, L.J. BROWN, American Dental Association, Chicago, IL, USA, A.J. FORMICOLA, Columbia University, Madison, NJ, USA, K. KALKWARF, University of Texas Health Science Center @ San Antonio, USA, W. MOURADIAN, University of Washington, USA, and J. WILLIAMS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

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