Supervision of redeployed surgical trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic: what have we learnt and how can we improve?

Objective: When cases of patients presenting with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) overwhelmed existing services in the United Kingdom (UK), surgical trainees were redeployed to assist frontline efforts. This project characterises the effects of redeployment on the supervision of these trainees. The resulting generation of practical recommendations could be implemented for future crises.

A profile of dental school deans, 2021.

Objective: In 2021, US dental school deans were surveyed to update and expand ADEA deans' profiles developed in 2002 and 2014.

Methods: The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and the Academy for Advancing Leadership (AAL) collaborated on an updated version of the 2014 dental deans' profile survey. On July 1, 2021, the research project was approved as exempt from IRB oversight.

Dental education 2026: A scenario exploration.

Purpose: The purpose of the following papers is to explore plausible alternative futures for dental education. The COVID-19 pandemic, challenges emerging from racism in the US, and social unrest were the precipitating factors leading to this consideration of academic dentistry in approximately 5 years.

Methods: In 2020-2021, five teams of six individual followed a seven-step process to develop five different scenarios of dental education in 2026.