ADEA Encourages Dental Educators to Submit Proposals

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration, announces a call for submissions for instructional resources to support an oral health in medicine model curriculum, disseminated through MedEdPORTAL, the association’s publication repository for peer-reviewed open-access educational resources. The objective of the initiative is to provide credible, peer-reviewed instructional materials to prepare physician clinicians to incorporate relevant oral health practices into general healthcare and disease prevention services. This initiative is supported through a cooperative agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration/Maternal Child Health Bureau (grant #U44MC20223).

Accepted applicants will receive a $2,000 development award and travel support to attend a required one-day training workshop on Educational Scholarship in Washington, D.C. Oral health resource development awards will be considered either for the: a) refinement of existing curricula content the author has already used in instruction, or for b) concept development of new oral health educational material the author proposes to draft in the course of the award activity. The development award will be disbursed in two phases: upon completion of the training workshop and upon formal submission of final materials to MedEdPORTAL. The oral health in medicine model curriculum will be entirely competency-based.

To review the full call for proposals, oral health in medicine competency domains and to apply online, please visit www.mededportal.org/oralhealth. Deadline for application is November 15, 2011, 5 p.m. Eastern Time.

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For more in depth information about this Call for Proposals: www.adea.org/mededportal

Competency Domain Areas Oral Health in Medicine Competencies.

Call for Proposals (full version), please click here: AAMC Oral Health in Medical Education Model Curriculum: Call for Submissions.