The Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) is seeking nominations for upcoming site visitor vacancies by Dec. 1, 2018.
CODA site visitors should have broad backgrounds in dental or dental-related education, as well as specific expertise in one of the areas listed below.
Predoctoral Dental Education
- Basic sciences
- Clinical sciences
- Curriculum
- Finance
- National licensure
- Predoctoral chair
Nominees for the roles above should be actively involved in predoctoral dental education and should have demonstrated interdisciplinary activities and involvement. Broader representation of minority dental faculty is a need in all areas.
Advanced Dental Education
- General dentistry
- Craniofacial and special care orthodontics clinical fellowships
- Dental anesthesiology
- Dental public health
- General practice residency
- Oral medicine
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery clinical fellowships
- Oral and maxillofacial pathology
- Oral and maxillofacial radiology
- Orofacial pain
- Pediatric dentistry
- Prosthodontics
Nominees for the roles above should have experience in the respective discipline. Priority consideration will be given to individuals with current, active involvement in advanced education programs in the respective disciplines and familiarity with accreditation issues.
Allied Dental Education
- Allied dentist
- Dental assisting
- Dental hygiene
- Dental laboratory technology
- Dental therapy
When conducting allied dental education site visits, the commission makes every effort to match the discipline site visitors with the setting of the program being evaluated. Community/technical colleges and vocational/technical schools sponsor the majority of accredited programs in each discipline. For this reason, nomination of individuals who are faculty members at institutions of this kind are encouraged. The commission will consider all qualified nominees for appointment.
Site visitors are appointed for one-year terms, and may be reappointed for up to six years. Completed nomination forms may be submitted to [email protected] and will be forwarded to the appropriate committee(s) for consideration.
Please note: Only those individuals who submit a completed nomination form will be considered; curriculum vitae will not be accepted.
The deadline for all CODA site visitor nominations is Dec. 1, 2018.
Site visitor nomination criteria and the site visitor nomination form are found at:
https://www.ada.org/en/coda/accreditation/accreditation-news/call-for-nominations
Thank you for your assistance in developing a highly qualified and widely diverse group of site visitors to carry out the important work of accreditation. For questions, please refer to the criteria document at the link above.
