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 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.
