| Seq #75 | Thursday, 9 March 2006 | |||||||
| 2:30 PM-4:30 PM Swan Hotel 5, Symposium | ||||||||
| [ADEA] Professional Promises: Hopes and Gaps in Access to Care | ||||||||
Sponsored by: ADEA | ||||||||
| Description: This symposium is based upon a national workshop held at the American Dental Association headquarters in August 2005. The workshop focused first on the ethics of access to oral health care with a particular emphasis on the professional promises health care professionals make to provide oral health care to the underserved. It then turned to how these promises interact with the themes of social justice and moral responsibilities. The primary goal of that workshop was to gather key stakeholders and engage them in discussions and deliberations on relevant ethical issues and to generate recommendations to the profession about how the profession’s Code of Ethics might evolve to better reflect access needs/desires and strategies for solutions in the U.S. In addition, the workshop addressed educational issues- how to better educate dental and allied dental students and committed professionals who are life-long learners about these issues. The objectives of this symposium, at the 2006 ADEA Annual Session, are to present a summary of these discussions and recommendations to the ADEA communities of interest. This symposium will be especially relevant and interesting to those ADEA and AADR members who are committed to and/or who work and teach on topics related to access to care, the development of professionalism, and professional ethics | ||||||||
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