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Consortium of Operative Dentistry Educators (CODE) REGIONAL REPORTS FALL 2014 Web site: http://www.unmc.edu/code 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreward......................................................................................................................................... 5 Origins of CODE ........................................................................................................................... 5 Organization Operation ................................................................................................................ 7 CODE Advisory Committee ......................................................................................................... 8 Regions and Schools ..................................................................................................................... 8 2014 Agenda .................................................................................................................................10 CODE Regional Meeting Report Form ........................................................................................15 CODE Regional Attendees Form .................................................................................................17 Regional Reports: Region I (Pacific) ..........................................................................................................18 Region II (Midwest) ......................................................................................................50 Region III (South Midwest) ..........................................................................................75 Region IV (Great Lakes) .............................................................................................104 Region V (Northeast) .................................................................................................136 Region VI (South) ......................................................................................................152 2 THE CODE 2014 REGIONAL REPORTS IN PDF FORMAT MAY BE FOUND ON THE WEBSITE: HTTP://WWW.UNMC.EDU/CODE PLEASE UPDATE YOUR SCHOOL’S DIRECTORY PAGE IN THE CODE NATIONAL DIRECTORY LOCATED ON THE CODE WEBSITE. TO ACCESS THE DIRECTORY, USE THE “PLEASE HELP UPDATE” LINK ON THE MAIN MENU OF THE WEBSITE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. On February 20, 2014, CODE held a National/International meeting during the annual meeting of the Academy of Operative Dentistry in Chicago. Dr. So Ran Kwon presented the program: Incorporation of Digital Technology in Dental Anatomy Grading and Dr. Eric Levine presented the program: ComputerAssisted Evaluation for Preclinical Dental Education. CODE acknowledges, the work of Dr. Tilly Peters in helping to make the presentations possible. The Power Point of the presentations are posted on the CODE website. I had the privilege of attending the 2014 Region IV meeting at Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine- Illinois in Downer’s Grove, IL. Dr. Marsha Babka served as a first-time host and she did an outstanding job of conducting the meeting, completing the regional report and showing the attendees excellent hospitality. There was lively discussion, great food and camaraderie. It was an opportunity for me to renew life-long friendships in the Great Lakes Region. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Marsha for hosting a wonderful meeting. Consistent with Dr. Haisch’s urgings, please continue to familiarize your Deans and Department chairs with CODE’s objectives and its value to their school, and the operative discipline. The deans’ support is crucial in providing the means for faculty to attend or host Regional meetings. Spread the word about CODE and work to provide input to Licensure Boards on Restorative Dentistry. Encourage/invite members of the Licensure examining boards to attend the Fall Regional meetings. Invite our colleagues in the Armed and Public Health Services to our meetings - both Regional and National. Support of CODE by payment from the schools for annual dues is excellent, although not without repeated follow-up efforts by the National office. The same can be said for the collection of the Fall Regional Reports. However, after only one “prompting”, I am greatly appreciative of the timely response this year. For the first time, CODE now operates under new Articles of Incorporation. This new formalized structure was necessary in order to shift the business from Nebraska to the State of Tennessee. Under these Articles, the Regional Directors serve as Board of Directors. As such, they were allowed to vote on the Articles and they were unanimously accepted by the newly formed Board of Directors. We still are under the direction of the Operative Section of ADEA, but the Articles allow us to conduct business as a non-profit organization. A copy of the Articles of Incorporation can be found on the C.O.D.E. website. 3 Thanks go to webmaster, Dr. William Johnson, for the timely website updates and enhancements. My appreciation also extends to the Regional Directors and the meeting hosts the Operative Section of ADEA and the general membership for helping to make CODE what it is and what it accomplishes. Thank you to my Dean, Dr. Timothy Hottel for his support. I could not have accomplished much of the operational aspects of CODE this second year without the assistance of Ms. Linda Diehl, Dr. William Johnson, Dr. Larry Haisch, and Ms. Wanda Patrick. Thank you, one and all. Sincerely, Edward J. DeSchepper, M.A.Ed., D.D.S., M.S.D. 4 Consortium of Operative Dentistry Educators (CODE) Foreword – Edward J. DeSchepper, M.A.Ed., D.D.S., M.S.D. National Director DeSchepper ED (ed.) CODE Regional Annual Reports 2014. http://www.unmc.edu/CODE ORIGINS OF C.O.D.E (Consortium of Operative Dental Educators) This portion written by Dr. Larry Haisch, DDS, Immediate Past National Director Project ACORDE (A Consortium of Restorative Dentistry Education) The date usually cited as the starting point for the development of Project ACORDE is 1966. That year, in Miami, the Operative Dentistry Section of AADS formed a committee charged to plan for the cooperative development of teaching dental materials. In July of 1971, the Dental Health Center, San Francisco, invited faculty from 14 dental schools to explore the feasibility of reaching consensus of a series of operative dental procedures. The outcome of the meeting suggested that it was feasible to achieve broad-based agreement on basic procedures: task analyses could be developed in which consensus could be reached on essential details of methods and instrumentation. The Project ACORDE committee was charged with the responsibility for coordinating curriculum development efforts on a national level in November of that year. Prominent in this project development were Bill Ferguson, David Grainger and Bob Wolcott. The Broad Goals and Functions of this committee were: 1. To gain agreement among all participating dental schools on the teaching of operative dentistry functions and gain acceptance by all schools. 2. To produce materials which can be universally accepted and utilized for teaching dental students and expanded function auxiliaries. During 1974, a 15-module package entitled Restoration of Cavities with Amalgam and Tooth-colored Materials was presented. The preparation package entitled Cavity Preparations for Amalgam and Tooth-colored Materials became available for distribution in March of 1976. Project ACORDE was found to have produced three major benefits for dental education: 1. It opened new channels of communication among dental educators. 2. It suggested uniform standards of quality for the performance of restorative skills. 3. It produced numerous lesson materials which were useful both for teaching students and as models of developers of other lessons. The benefit, most frequently cited by dental school faculty, was communication. The primary example of the communication begun by Project ACORDE, which has lasted well beyond the initial project, is CODE 5 (Consortium of Operative Dentistry Educators). CODE has as its goal, the continuation of meetings for the purpose of information exchange among teachers of operative dentistry. Regional CODE meetings are held annually with minutes of each session recorded and sent to the national director for distribution. This system is a direct spin-off of Project ACORDE. The first annual session of CODE was held in 1974/75. The Early Years (1974-1977) As founding father of the concept, Robert B. Wolcott of UCLA assumed the role of national coordinator and appointed Frank J. Miranda of the University of Oklahoma as national secretary. A common agenda to be provided to all six regions was established at this time. The first regional meetings were held in the winter of 1974. During the first three years of operation, each region devised a system of rotation so that a different school hosted the regional meeting each year, thus providing a greater degree of motivation and bringing schools closer together in a spirit of fellowship and unity. Each region submitted suggestions for future agendas, thereby insuring a continued discussion of interesting and relevant topics. A collection of tests or a test bank was started in early 1976. This bank consisted of submitted written examination questions on specified topics that were compiled and redistributed to all schools. The Transition Years (1977-1980) The first indication that the future of CODE was in jeopardy came in 1977, the first year that a national report could not be complied and distributed. As