UBC Dentistry’s four-member liaison team garnered the top prize for their poster presentation about the Faculty’s curriculum innovation.
The competition was held during an annual meeting of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Commission on Change and Innovation (CCI) in Dental Education in New Orleans, Louisiana, from June 7 to 9, 2016.
From left to right: Drs. Jim Richardson, Leandra Best, HsingChi von Bergmann and Nancy Black won the first place prize for innovation at the 2016 ADEA CCI Liaisons Summer Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Drs. Leandra Best, Nancy Black, Jim Richardson, and HsingChi von Bergmann—all experts in various dental education initiatives at UBC—took first place after a three-round, peer-rated competition over the course of two days at the 2016 ADEA CCI Liaisons Summer Meeting.
The team presented their poster “Building an Innovative, Competency-Based Assessment System to Support a Renewed, Small Group Learning-Based, Spiraled Dental Curriculum at the University of British Columbia.”
The poster encapsulates the rationale and the goals of a renewed small group learning-based, spiraled curriculum and a new formative-focused, competency-based assessment system (called Progress Portfolio), which is designed specifically to meet both the educational needs of dental students and accreditation requirements.
Round one participants were rated on the basis of innovation, significance, collaboration and implementation to qualify for round two; whereby, participants’ ideas were judged by a panel for impact on dental education. The three top teams then entered the final round to compete in a timed skills task that showcased their ability to think creatively in the moment.
The competition was open to teams from all US and Canadian dental schools. Thirty-two teams entered the competition, and UBC was the only team from Canada.