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What Everyone Has Been
Up To..
Regional Reports
Interim 2008
Arizona School of Dental and Oral
Health
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Held a PASS Dinner-N-Learn in April with a
guest speaker from the ADEA PASS
program. This will be a biannual event
with another occurring in OctoberNovember 2008
UCLA
We are very proud to announce the
conception of UCLA’s first ADEA Student
Chapter.
 Currently in the midst of completing online video tutorials of Operative and Fixed
Prosthodontics preparations completed
and narrated by clinical instructors
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Southern Illinois
Membership drive planned
 PASS presentation in the planning
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University of Detroit Mercy
Created a traveling program to local
universities to get undergrad students
excited about dental school
 organized mid semester course reviews
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Nebraska
speakers on dental education
 planning on having a learning session of
how to have a proper CV and how to fill
out PASS
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Minnesota
Held “ADEA Lunch Presentations”
 Have obtained official "student group
status" through the university and have a
bank account
 Started Ethics Club
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Marquette
Featured in school’s newsletter
 are selling raffle tickets to win a trip to
Ireland as part of a school-wide project to
raise money for organizations
 Trying to implement an Ethics Club
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UCSF
Annual High School Outreach Conference
(HSOC), on April 26, 2008. This
conference was in its 5th year
 Kids at UCSF Day is an expansion of Take
Our Daughters to Work Day, a national
program for 10 years put on to ameliorate
the negative affects of sex role
stereotyping on girls.
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Loma Linda
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-An overview of the conference was
presented in their didactic course.
Oregon Health Sciences University
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After a discussion on integrity and
professionalism in dental schools, a fifteen
minute discussion was held on issues
discussed at the Annual Session including,
boards, mandatory PGY1 and integrity
councils
UNLV
Boy Scout Merit Badge Day
 planning for our 3rd annual Dental School
Simulation Courses (our last ones were in
June and were awesome--150+
participants from 20+ universities).
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Pacific University
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Initiated selective course to introduce
Boards Part I to first years. Gave
overview of boards, study tips, and had
panel of students for Q&A session
Sponsored big sibling simulation lab event
for 2nd years to help 1st years prepare for
their first operative practical.
USC
a survival guide
 The DH representative is writing up an
article to be published in the ADHA
magazine
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 1)
ADEA membership and benefits,
 2) encouraging education in ethics on various
dental hygiene campuses nationwide
Washington
mission statement
 new positions/descriptions/requirements
for chapter leadership
 hosted an ADEA orientation for the class
of 2012 during lunch on their first day on
campus
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 Everyone
brought their laptop to sign up
Howard University
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Working with our Dean to improve the
curriculum
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focus groups were be held in June
comprised of students, faculty, staff and
administration
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Had PASS Lunch and Learn
University of Pittsburgh
Presentation on the Pass application
process
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-Peter Storandt from the national office
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presented to the third year class
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Second annual Wet Lab Survival Caddy
sale
-For incoming first years
Biggie Smalls