Resolve to Get More CE This Year
January is a great time to start planning your continuing education (CE) goals for the year. Stay on top of your CE tracking to find out how close you are to earning Fellowship or Mastership awards.
Self-Instruction Now Includes AGD Impact
AGD's Self-Instruction program now includes exercises based on AGD Impact articles. Designed to fit easily into your busy learning schedule, each AGD Impact exercise contains 10 questions and is worth one continuing education credit.
Financial Conflicts of Interest in Dentistry
Records of payments from the healthcare industry to dental care providers are now publicly available. In this retrospective, observational study that was published in the latest issue of General Dentistry, Lee & Chuang characterize the amount and types of payments made in 2017, comparing the distribution of money across dental specialties.
AGD’s Positions on Healthcare Reform
With the 2020 U.S. presidential election looming, healthcare continues to be a top concern for the American public. During their 2019 annual meeting, the AGD House of Delegates adopted a paper clarifying AGD’s positions on key tenets of healthcare reform.
Welcome to This Week at AGD!
Welcome to This Week at AGD. We are excited to launch a new weekly newsletter to keep you apprised of AGD events, news in the world of general dentistry and information critical to your practice. This Week at AGD will replace AGD in Action, which was previously emailed every Wednesday.
Join the AGD Foundation Oral Cancer Screening Challenge
Host an event in your community to screen people for oral cancer during April 2020, Oral Cancer Awareness Month.
Approved Organizations Must Submit CE Rosters Electronically to AGD
In 2005, AGD began requiring PACE-approved program providers to submit CE credits for all AGD members directly to AGD. As of Jan. 1, 2017, providers were notified that they must use AGD’s online roster to submit CE hours earned by AGD members to AGD.
New Application and Approval Maintenance Fees Coming in 2020
Effective Jan. 1, 2020, the application fee for national PACE approval will be $755, and the AGD National Approval Maintenance Fee will be $300.
Standard IX: Publicity -- What Providers Need to Know
PACE standards are designed to help continuing dental education providers follow best practices when planning and implementing dental education programs. Adhering to PACE standards will help providers offer quality dental education courses.
Updated Term
The AGD PACE Council recently updated the PACE definition of “Commercial Interest/Commercial Entity” in the PACE Lexicon of Terms found in the PACE Guidelines. This is the current definition:
Get to Know the PACE Website
PACE is designed to help continuing dental education organizations deliver quality educational courses to dental professionals. AGD knows this can be a daunting mission, especially for organizations just starting to build their programs, which is why AGD has a number of tools available to approved providers that will help them manage their programs.
New AGD President Ready to Make Impactful Change
The Academy of General Dentistry’s (AGD’s) House of Delegates recently installed new officers during its annual meeting, held in Chicago, Nov. 8–10. Connie L. White, DDS, FAGD, a general dentist from Kansas City, Missouri, was named president.
Regional Directors Corner
Michael A. Gordon, DDS, MAGD, received his DDS from the Indiana University School of Dentistry in 1989. He joined AGD in his senior year of dental school.
Tennessee AGD Helps Tennesseans’ Access to Care Issue
On July 27, 2019, the Tennessee AGD board passed a motion to help both Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry (MMC) in Nashville and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry (UT) in Memphis with their expanded functions dental assistant (EFDA) programs.
Recruit, Rewards, Renew, Repeat
AGD’s “Three for Free” membership promotion is going on now! This is one of AGD’s most popular recruitment promotions of the year. Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019, any new member who joins AGD for 2020 receives the rest of 2019 for free.
Apply for Fellowship or Mastership
In this competitive professional world, it’s important to differentiate yourself. Remind eligible members to apply for the Fellowship or Mastership awards.
AGD Education Highlights
Plan your remaining continuing education (CE) for 2019 by browsing AGD’s online learning CE listings.
AGD2020 Housing Block is Now Available
AGD has secured a special group rate on a limited number of hotel rooms at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Once registered for AGD2020, a confirmation email will be sent to you with a hotel link that contains the discounted room rate.
Take Advantage of Promotional Materials
AGD Foundation Grant Program
The AGD Foundation is challenging all AGD constituencies to host an oral cancer screening event in April 2020 during Oral Cancer Awareness Month.