CONGRATULATIONS DR. REESE ON BECOMING REGION 7 TRUSTEE!
1972- The IAGD Begins
From left to right: Paul Stevens (Vise President), Pil Goodman (President), Lional French (AGD National Director from OH), and Dr. John Regan (Secretary/ Treasurer)
This website has been designed for members of the AGD and those doctors who are thinking of joining the AGD.
The Indiana Academy of General Dentistry strives to provide high quality educational events to assist you in your educational journey. Browse through our website and see what IAGD has to offer you!
The Indiana AGD Master Track Program is an incredible Dental educational experience, totally unparalleled by any other continuing education in my experience. Superlative information with in depth lectures are rotated every six months through all of the dental disciplines. Although the lectures are outstanding, the Master Track program allows Dentists to turn each lecture series into participation credit hours which can be used toward attaining the AGD Mastership status. An assignment is given at the end of the lecture series and anyone who chooses, makes a presentation at one of the next two meetings.
The Indiana AGD Master Track Program format gave me such great personal and professional satisfaction. The program was so inviting and interesting that lunches were also a forum for learning from one another. Dinner reservations were even made for the participants further deepening the feeling of camaraderie between all of us. This particular learning situation challenged me to become an even more active listener and “student” since I knew I would be actually presenting the material in a few months to my Dental peers.
This Indiana AGD program surrounded me with fellow Dentists who also were trying to be the best clinicians they could be and the friendly competition that existed between the presenters fostered friendships that will last a lifetime. I often learned as much from the other presenters as I did from the original lecturer!
I would highly recommend this educational gem to all who wish to stretch themselves professionally because like me, I’ll bet you will do more than enhance your clinical skills. I found an enhanced confidence level and since of accomplishment that allowed me to evolve on many levels both personally and professionally!
Diane T. Arel, DDS, MAGD
Ohio AGD
There are several things I would
say about my experiences with the AGD and the IAGD:
1) It's the best thing I've ever done for my patients. Period.
2) I can't conceive of any other program facilitating my growth as a person and
a professional as much as the
Continuing Education programs through the IAGD have.
3) The entire Dental School environment fosters a "competition" mindset. There
is NO other institution within the profession of dentistry that facilitates
fellowship and sharing among colleagues in a non-confrontational manner quite
like the IAGD. Some of my best relationships in the profession includes several
of my acquaintances through the IAGD Fast Track programs.
4) The general dentist has too many different hats to wear and too many battles
to fight, to be great at all of them. Rotating through the Fast Track programs
offers exposure to state of the art concepts and techniques in a variety of
fields to keep a general
practitioner current on topics of professional and personal concern.
5) After 25 years of caring for patients and general practice, many of my
colleagues are feeling "burnt out" and "out of date". My commitment to Continuing
Education has kept me feeling current and eager to try better techniques and
materials for my patient care.
6) Dental office overhead limits the C.E. that many doctors can afford. I've
been through Pankey (expensive) and I've been through years of working with The
Pride Institute traveling to programs from
New York to California,
Chicago to the
Florida Keys. The programs
through the IAGD bring the names in dentistry that I want to see and hear, to my
area at a lower cost than any other program. Today, I will tell you that I'd
love to have the time and money that I've wasted traveling to other states to
attend programs that sometimes offered what I now find available locally,
at dramatically lower cost.
7) If I were counseling a new graduate from ANY dental school, the single most
important advice I'd offer at the first opportunity would be for them to get
involved in QUALITY CONTINUING EDUCATION at their first opportunity and stay
there. Their patients deserve it and ignorance is way too expensive an
alternative!
Dr. Michael Stohler
The Fast Track to Excellence is a continuing education continuum under sponsorship of the Indiana Academy of General Dentistry. Our intention and desire is to provide current, relevant, and practical continuing education for the general practitioner in all aspects of dentistry. We will provide and select dental clinicians and speakers (academians, researchers and practicing dentists alike) who have demonstrated superior knowledge and skills related to the subject matter of each course. Our course will rotate through the various disciplines of dentistry to cover all aspects involved in the general practice. The lectures are intended to be relevant for practical training for those seeking to expand their treatment skills or serve as a knowledge base for those desiring to keep their understanding and recommendations current to the standard of care.
Each Fast Track session will function as an excellent stand alone CE lecture experience. The Fast Track is also designed and began as a vehicle to function as a participation course for those seeking to fulfill their FAGD and MAGD requirements. It is our intention to fulfill the needs for any and all practicing clinicians of dentistry wishing to further their skills and knowledge.
FAGD and MAGD candidates will be given clinical assignments following each session for in office completion and return to “present” these assignments on the Friday evening after the meeting is completed for the day. The purpose of the presentation is to document the completion of the assignment and to share the learning experience with other doctors attending. This presentation session typically covers some failures of treatment as well as the successful treatment and trouble shooting problematic scenarios which proves to be of benefit to all in attendance. All doctors registered for the Saturday and/ or Sunday lecture are to sit in on the presentation session for this valuable learning experience and will receive the additional CE at no charge.
The rotation of disciplines will vary depending upon availability of qualified speakers and programs.
The Fast Track To Excellence series is designed to facilitate achievement for the fellowship/mastership candidate. The program equally serve the needs of all general practitioners wishing to keep current on the cutting edge of the new trends and techniques developing in dentistry and to receive a diversified clinical education.
Your course workbook and manual is designed to help you learn as well as serve as a tool to apply in your practice. Unlike other CE opportunities, the Fast Track to Excellence has the advantage of being sponsored by an academy that focuses on CE for GP’s.
The Fast Track to Excellence is designed to help you learn as well for others to learn from you. Take advantage of this opportunity!
Following the Friday meeting there will be an opportunity to present over the previous meeting topic. Presentation will be your opportunity to share what you know. If you don’t plan to present on the clinical assignment you are welcome to just sit in and learn from other’s experience.
For the Fast Track meetings the Holiday Inn holds a block of rooms for 30 days out from the seminar date. It will help us greatly if you would register for the upcoming meeting before you leave this weekend. Your stay at the hotel is greatly encouraged as it allows you to be in the thick of things (meeting wise). Being a guest at the hotel during the meetings helps keep the costs lower and in turn keeps course fees down.
For the Fast Track meetings the Holiday Inn holds a block of rooms for 30 days out from the seminar date. It will help us greatly if you would register for the upcoming meeting before you leave this weekend. Your stay at the hotel is greatly encouraged as it allows you to be in the thick of things (meeting wise). Being a guest at the hotel during the meetings helps keep the costs lower and in turn keeps course fees down.
The meeting includes lunches, which are served in the open forum area reserved for course attendees only. During lunch you are encouraged to participate in “lunch and learn”. “Lunch and learn” is an opportunity to learn and share some management pearls from your colleagues relating to the dental discipline being studied. Because this is directly related to your CE experience the additional hours of study are reflected in the hours awarded.
Continuing education courses do not necessarily reflect the philosophies of the Indiana Academy of General Dentistry or the Academy of General Dentistry. Sponsorship of a continuing education course by the Indiana Academy of General Dentistry/ Academy of General Dentistry does not imply subject matter, product and procedure or techniques endorsement.
Courses may include subject matter of an experimental and/or controversial nature and commercial references. This material is offered to the profession for educational and information purposes in a spirit of academic freedom.
Course participants are responsible for evaluating their own skill levels in implementing course offerings and must judge for themselves their own adequacy and ability to implement procedures, techniques that are new to the dental practice or considered controversial.
Participants are encouraged to seek multiple/advanced courses and in-depth hands on programs from highly respected clinicians, programs, internships, residencies and/or dental schools before implementing complex procedures that may have an ever increasing potential to cause irreversible harm to susceptible patients.
The Indiana Academy of General Dentistry hereby disclaims any and all responsibility/ liability, which may be asserted or claimed arising from or claimed to have arisen from performance or utilization of techniques/procedures presented by lectures/presenters.
