20 March 2007
ADEA Section Program: Business and Financial Administration and Clinic Administration: The Impact of Globalization on Dental Education - Can You See the Future?
Room: Morial Convention Center - 289
Presenters: Dr. Lonnie Norris, Dr. Laura Neumann, Dr. Monty MacNeil
FOCUS: Excellence in the Academy
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: This program will address: 1. Globalization issues that are currently impacting on dental education, accreditation and licensure in the United States and Canada. 2. Factors of a global nature, such as the increasing immigration of professional persons to the United States and Canada, which will continue to initiate and effect changes in dental education. 3. Changes in dental education which will be demanded, as well as changes that are likely to occur, over the next five (5) years, due to globalization. 4. Related changes in accreditation and licensure processes which will be required as a result of this change. 5. The opportunities and risks associated with change and how academic dentistry can be better prepared for these eventualities.
Globalization might be described as the process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of ideas and commodities and, most importantly, the movement of people, is becoming standardized around the world. This program will address globalization issues that are currently impacting dental education, accreditation, and licensure in the United States and Canada; factors of a global nature, such as the increasing immigration of professional persons to the United States and Canada, which will continue to initiate and effect changes in dental education; changes in dental education that will be demanded, as well as changes that are likely to occur over the next five years due to globalization; related changes in accreditation and licensure processes that will be required as a result of this change; and the opportunities and risks associated with change and how academic dentistry can be better prepared for these eventualities. The program will also address how these topics affect such issues in dental education as access to care, recruitment of new faculty, and faculty diversification.
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