ASDE Spring Newsletter

Special Newsletter February 2022 A Section of the American College of Dentists Mission Statement The mission of ASDE is to lead education and scholarship in dental ethics.

Core Values of ASDE Leadership Community Education Collegiality Scholarship Service Professional integrity Officers President: Odette Aguirre (2022) President Elect: Kathryn Ragalis (2022) Treasurer: Phyllis Beemsterboer (2022) Past President: Frederick More (2022) Members at Large: Carlos Smith (2023), Regina Messer (2023), Terrence Hoffeld (2022), Robert Stevenson (2022) ACD Liaison: Toni Roucka Executive Director: Frederick More

Membership Meeting!

Via Zoom on Wednesday March 16, 2022 5:00 PM EST Meeting ID:996 406 2706 Passcode: ASDE2022

Program 5:00 – 5:45 EST Business Meeting 5:45 – 6:00 EST

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COVID! COVID! COVID! What measures did you adopt during the pandemic that have become permanent changes in your professional life? The pandemic resulted in everyone making changes. Some of these changes were necessities. All of us have found that some of these adaptions were innovations we have incorporated in our professional lives.

Bring your innovations to share with the membership!

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President’s report Treasurer’s report Project reports Nominations for ASDE Board of Directors 2022-2023: Offices and names in boldface are nominees: President: Kathryn Ragalis President-elect: Carlos Smith Past president: Odette Aguirre Treasurer: Phyllis Beemsterboer Member-at large: Terry Hoffeld Member-at-large: Bob Stevenson Member-at-large: Catherine Sarkis Exec Director: Frederick More ACD Liaison: Pamela Zarkowski

The Ozar-Hasawaga Ethics Award Call for Submissions The Ozar-Hasegawa Ethics Award is an annual award named for two individuals who contributed to the scholarship, discussion, and application of dental ethics, Professor David Ozar (Loyola University) and Dr. Thomas Hasegawa Jr. (Baylor College of Dentistry, deceased). The award is presented by the American Society for Dental Ethics (ASDE) to a predoctoral, graduate dental, dental hygiene or graduate dental hygiene student for an essay, case study of an ethical dilemma, or visual product demonstrating ethical reflection. This competition is also open to dental students outside the United States and Canada. The Model for Ethical Decision Making (Ozar & Sokol 2018; ethical decision-making model for dental hygiene (Beemsterboer 2010), The American College of Dentists, or comparable decision-making model should be applied.

The purpose of this award is to encourage dental hygiene, predoctoral and graduate students to identify a professional situation in which there is a significant ethical issue. The submission should demonstrate thoughtful and complete ethical reflection and may include an editorial, analysis of the situation using an ethical decisionmaking model, video, poem, or digital media production.

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Two $500.00 awards

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One-year ASDE membership for each student winner and their faculty advisor.

Subscription to Journal of the American College of Dentists during the same year of ASDE membership.

Publication of the selected submission or description of project in the ASDE Newsletter.

Essay or description of project posted on the ASDE Website https://www.acd.org/aboutus/american-society-for-dentalethics-asde/.

Eligibility: Includes all predoctoral, dental hygiene, graduate dental and graduate dental hygiene students who are currently enrolled in an accredited school of dentistry and/or dental hygiene program in the United States and Canada. Dental students enrolled in a program outside the United States and Canada are also eligible.

Students must be in good academic standing and have documentation from their dental/dental hygiene program confirming that standing.

Entries: An essay or comparable product of careful ethical reflection (including, but not limited to a short story, poem, or other narrative work, etc.) in which the student: a.

Describes* a case, i.e. in a dental practice setting or comparable professional situation -- in which there is a significant ethical

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issue from the perspective of the oral health provider Identifies* the professional ethical issue(s) in the case; Examines* the issue(s) in such a way as to illuminate the most important elements from the perspective of professional ethics for oral health care providers; Proposes a resolution* of the ethical issue(s).

The length or format of the project should reflect a thoughtful approach to the four aspects of the project outlined in a-d above.

* NOTE: Each of these four activities (a-d) is to be presented in a manner appropriate to the type of creative work presented. For example, “describing” in an essay will ordinarily mean writing a narrative to begin the essay.

“Proposing a resolution” to an ethical issue will, in an essay, ordinarily mean concluding the essay by formulating a judgment about what ought to be done in the case and providing careful reasoning in support of it. But other types of submissions are encouraged; and the creator’s achievement of the four activities named above will be judged in each case in terms of what is appropriate for the type of creative work presented.

Quote of the Month: Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

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Membership We encourage dental, dental hygiene and advanced program educators, as well as dental and dental hygiene practitioners to join ASDE. If you are a member, encourage your colleagues to join.

For membership applications please use the following addresses at the ACD office:  Mail submissions: ASDE Membership

American College of Dentists 103 North Adams Street Rockville, Maryland 20850 301-977-3223 ~ office@acd.org

 Email Submissions: office@acd.org

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