Teledentistry (Tele-OralHealth)… Webinars are fast becoming the sine qua non for dental education. For those who challenge this, I suggest they start looking at the statistics from Angus Reid and Millennium research on other media delivery platforms. It’s not about the now, it’s about the trends that will be the drivers of the next decade. … Read more
This is a variation on the theme of the state motto of New Hampshire. This entry will routinely be adjusted as more and more “free” webinar links are identified. The first is from Den Trek which interestingly enough is owned by an endodontist, Phil Klein, who saw the vision of online education many many moons … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Ottawa says there is a shortage of dentists in rural Canada so it has chipped in $800,000 to get foreign-trained dentists here ASAP, according to a story by Tom Godfrey in the Toronto Sun. “The Canadian Dental Regulatory Authorities Federation will use the money for a national centre to assess the credentials … Read more
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Interesting series of You Tube videos…….detailing use of Facebook for social networking. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F2FD82737700C818 Connected Culture Blog Keep up to date with the progress of Jerry Allocca’s much anticipated new book Connected Culture: The Art of Communicating with the Digital Generation. The book will be published by the Administrator’s Bookshelf,a resource for higher education. Be a … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been attending trade shows since I was just a little baby editor on a wonderful business-to-business (B2B) magazine called Food in Canada and some of my fondest memories are of Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany. My first international tradeshow experience came at Anuga, one of the largest food trade fairs, held at Koelnmesse. … Read more
The American Dental Education Association provides a fascinating overview of slideshow links assessing the trends and changes expected to occur in dental education over the coming years. http://www.adea.org/publications/TrendsinDentalEducation/SlideshowsandArticleLinks/Pages/default.aspx We are all responsible to our profession to sustain it’s future..a worthwhile review…….and they have a separate section for Mac users…….NOW that’s progress!!!!
Social networking may not be your thing, and that’s okay. It can be difficult to keep up with daily, or even weekly, blogs and posts on Twitter, Facebook, and the many other networking sites out there in cyberspace. Even if you aren’t the tech-savvy dentist who Twitters in real time about a root canal or … Read more
Social Networking for Dentists – Made Easy!! By Dan Marut, DMD By now you’ve probably heard of Facebook and/or MySpace. If you are really techno savvy you may have written a blog and heard of Twitter. You may even have heard of NewDocs. As a dentist you are a practitioner taking care of patients and … Read more