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Evaluating the Impact of the ADEA Admissions Committee Workshops
Author(s) -
Price Shelia S.,
Wells Anne,
Brunson W. David,
Sinkford Jeanne C.,
Valachovic Richard W.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.2011.75.5.tb05096.x
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , workforce , dental education , underrepresented minority , medical education , medicine , psychology , family medicine , political science , law
Drawing on the interconnection of workforce diversity and oral health access, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is leading a novel approach to improve student body diversity in U.S. dental schools through an admissions committee development program. With funding provided by the Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community‐Based Dental Education program and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, ten dental directors/deans of admissions from a cross‐section of U.S. dental schools were selected through a competitive application process to participate in a Train‐the‐Trainers Admissions Committee Workshop. After completing intensive training that was built on legally sound admissions practices, these new trainers copresented ADEA Admissions Committee Workshops in two‐member teams at six U.S. dental schools. This report summarizes the evaluation of both the train‐the‐trainers workshop and six workshops held in summer 2009. Also summarized are post‐workshop outcomes relative to structural diversity at the participating schools.