Start or Maintain a Student Chapter

You can contact these leaders to gain more information and advice on how to get your student chapters started. These leaders will have information on CE opportunities, speakers and other details that can improve the experience for you and your colleagues. Find a chapter leader, AGD constituent leader, and/or regional director in your area. 

Once you’ve gotten started, make sure to register your student chapter and your colleagues who participate. We want to support you and communicate with you on courses and tracking CE credits, the benefits of AGD membership, advocacy efforts, and issues affecting dental students and organized dentistry now and after graduation. Please email students@agd.org to obtain the most current AGD chapter registration/renewal form.

Take time to familiarize yourself with everything that AGD can do for you, and encourage your classmates to review the AGD dental student membership benefits and apply for membership today! If you are a chapter leader, make sure all of the students in your chapter are receiving credit for their CE. Student members who participate in the chapter may apply up to 50 hours of FAGD/MAGD-approved CE lecture credit, earned in dental school, toward the Fellowship Award. CE lecture credits can accumulate while students are in school and transfer to their active member transcript upon graduation. 

Use the provided PowerPoint presentations during upcoming Lunch & Learns or student meetings you have planned. These presentations include notes for the speaker to use during the presentation and/or links to resources.

Who is AGD?
Choosing an Associateship
Getting Started with CE
Until Debt Do Us Part

Use the following resources to maximize your AGD student membership benefits:

AGD Fellowship Award (FAGD)
AGD Fellowship FAQs

AGD Student Chapter Branding Kit: 

• Letterhead
• PowerPoint Master Slide
• Logo (.jpg)
• Logo (.png)

AGD Student Chapter Calendar
AGD Student Chapter Officer Duties
AGD Student Member Benefits
Seven Things That The AGD Does For Student Members Flyer
Model Student Chapter Bylaws


AGD Student Chapter Eblast Template:

• Instructions
• Student E-blast Template (HTML)
• Student E-blast Template (Text)

AGD Student Chapter Social Media Guide
AGD Marketplace & Career Center
AGD Mastership Award (MAGD)
AGD-Dental School/Managing Your Debt Fact Sheet
New Graduate Professional Liability Insurance Coverage
Questions for the Dentist Considering Career Options as a Dental Associate
Student Chapter Financing Guide
You've Graduated—Now What? Flyer
Video: Succession Planning for Student Chapter Leaders
AGD BonusBucks Flyer
AGD Student Multi Year Flyer

Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) Student Chapters are an important source of relevant, real-world information for today’s young dental professionals. Through guided events hosted by local AGD representatives and invited speakers, attendees can observe the latest dental techniques, receive valuable practice management advice, identify leadership opportunities within organized dentistry, achieve AGD Fellowship, and much more.

The AGD is pleased to offer constituent leaders, dental school faculty, and general dentistry residency program directors national support in hosting local AGD Student Chapter events and promoting AGD membership. In addition to distributing complimentary printed recruitment materials, AGD Headquarters awards a select number of $500 scholarships annually to qualified applicants to help defray the costs of hosting local AGD Student Chapter events.