19/08/2021
Dear Colleagues,
I hope everything goes well with you even under the COVID-19 pandemic. Strategy of lock-down has been utilized as a strict policy to limit the spread out of the pandemic. Many issues seem to be ceased. But the running of the earth won’t be stopped, the young generation continue to grow. Thus the dental education should be carried on, but in a modified way.
From Face-to-face to the on-line learning, we are facing the challenge of paradigm shift of dental education during the covid-19 pandemic. Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the student academic experience is brought into sharp relief set up by "Students Academic Experience Survey 2021" published on 24th June, 2021 by Advance HE and the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) written by Jonathan Neves and Rachel Hewitt. It postulated that increased number of students felt their expectations were not met. 54% of these said there was too little in-person contact with other students.51% said there was too little in-person interaction with staff. Regarding "How to improve the academic experience?" the top one identified by the students was: Improve assessment feedback. The quality assurance and assessment of on-line courses for dental education remains an undetected issue in Asia Pacific region.
We organize an ADEAP meeting in title of “Paradigm shift of dental education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia Pacific” to be held on 12th September from 13:00-17:00 (GMT+8) via webinar. Each country is cordially invited to give a 10 minutes presentation regarding to the quality assurance and assessment of on-line learning in his own country. The presenters are the country representative or recommended by the country representative.
Before the symposium, we organize a session of “International Collaboration with Country Association” to enhance the collaboration between Dental Education
Associations from Korea, Japan, Australia and ADEAP. We have invited the Chief Executive Officer of Australian Dental Council (ADC) Professor Narelle Mills, President of Japan Association for Dental Education (JADE) Professor Akiyama Hitoshi, President of Korea Institute of Dental Education and Evaluation (KIDEE), each of them will give a 15minutes speech regarding to their own Association and the possibility of future collaboration with ADEAP.
Besides these, President of Philippine Association of Dental College (PADC) Dean Professor Arturo de Leon will also give a speech regarding to the future collaboration of PADC (composed of 27 dental schools in Philippine) with ADEAP and sign an MOU for sister link agreement. Taiwan Association of Dental Education will also sign an MOU for sister link agreement with ADEAP in this session. I believe this will enhance the international collaboration of dental education in Asia Pacific.
Since our 1st meeting which was held on 6th Aug. 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, because of the challenge of the pandemic, instead of physical meeting, we’ve organized several on-line symposiums and published 3 manuscripts in scientific journal:
1. Tsai-Yu Chang, Guang Hong, Corrado Paganelli, Prathip Phantumvanit, et al. Innovation of dental education during COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Dental Sciences. 2021 Jan;16(1):15-20 (SCI) *89 citations
2. Guang Hong, Tsai-Yu Chang, Andrew Terry et al. Guidelines for innovation in dental education during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Journal of Oral Science. 2020 Dec 23;63(1):107-110 (SCI)
3. Tsai-Yu Chang, Ming-Lun Hsu, Jae-Sung Kwon, M.F Lindawati S. Kusdhany, Guang Hong. Effect of online learning for dental education in Asia during the pandemic of COVID-19. Journal of Dental Sciences. 2021 Jun. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jds.2021.06.006 (SCI)
Even though there is no physical meeting can be held during this period, but the progress of the Association should be carried on. Matters of election for the officers for the next term will be announced in the end of this symposium.
Participants are free to attend the meeting. But pre-registration (https://forms.gle/k4swP4QGieXeqRNc6) before 5th September, 2021 is required since the number of participants are limited, because of the limitation of the ZOOM meeting.
Looking forward to your participation.
Best regards
Allen Ming-Lun Hsu
President
Association for Dental Education, Asia Pacific (ADEAP)
Past President
South East Asia Association for Dental Education (SEAADE)
Founders Board
International Federation of Dental Educators and Associations (IFDEA)
Distinguished Professor
School of Dentistry
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
