Special Interest Groups

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) provide ADEE members and annual meeting delegates with a valuable opportunity to share and explore particular areas of focus and interest over a time-limited period.

Each Special Interest Group has a designated chair or chairs, pre-agreed aims and objectives, and a defined lifetime.

Special Interest Group chairs are required to meet formally with the ADEE executive as a core ADEE stakeholder group so as to evolve the work of the Special Interest Groups and understand their value to the educational community

Continuing a productive SIG

If a SIG is clearly well-attended, and has produced useful educational outputs for the community, then the SIG leaders may apply to convert to time-limited SIG, to a longitudinal Community of Practice

Want to start a SIG? Download our guidelines at the bottom of the page

Active SIGs

Developing a 3D printing community 2024-2026
The use of AI in education (coming soon)
Developing a postgraduate curriculum for research (coming soon)
Exploring a new undergraduate curriculum in Oral Surgery (coming soon)

Concluded SIGs

A different approach: A hands-on Preventive dentistry curriculum 2016
ADEE-ADEA cooperation 2014-2018
Aesthet(h)ics dentistry: Medical vs. Ethical Aspects of multidisciplinary treatment in the under- and postgraduate education 2019
Assessment procedures for Non EU dentists for registration in EU 2019
Biomedical Sciences in Dentistry; Developing a Contemporary Core Curriculum 2014-2016
Categorising learning outcomes for operative pre-clinical skills 2019
Clinical Skills Teaching 2015-2018
Competence Assessment 2014-2019
Communication and Health Behaviour Change Education (CHBCed) 2016
Current and future research needs to assess the effectiveness of video dentistry 2016
Dental Educators On the Move 2014-2017
EDHF Common Education Framework – Harmonisation of Dental Hygiene education in Europe 2015-2018
EDSA Education Objectives 2016
EDSA research 2014
Ethics and Law in dentistry 2014
General Medicine and Surgery in Dentistry 2014
Global Health and social accountability 2016
Implant Dentistry University Education 2014-2017
Learning Analytics in European Dental Education (LAEDE) 2019
Life Long Learning 2013-2016
Life Long Learning - The end of CPD as we know it? Welcome changes ahead? 2019
New and Emerging Technologies in Dental Education 2018
Monitoring & Assessment in undergraduate Endodontology; towards a European standard 2014-2015
Special Care Dentistry 2014-2015
Teacher feedback and student learning: a European perspective 2018
Transition to clinical training in dentistry: The pre-clilnical/clinical gap 2016
Virtual Reality in Dental Education 2014-2016
Wellbeing and resilience in dental education 2018

The SIG activity and scheduling within conference sessions is overseen jointly by Professor Ina Schuler, Professor Sibylle Vital and Professor James Field

Ina Schüler

Head of Section of Preventive and Paediatric Dentistry

Friedrich-Schiller Universitat Jena

Priv.-Doz. Dr Ina Schüler is head of Section of Preventive and Paediatric Dentistry at Jena University Hospital, Germany. She finished her Habilitation in 2018 at Jena University Hospital and the Master of Medical Education (MME-D) in 2017 at University Heidelberg. Her special educational research interests are Feedback, Assessment, Chairside Teaching and Entrustable Professional Activities in Dentistry. Ina's medical resaerch focusses on oral health in patients with special healthcare needs.

James Field

Professor in Restorative Dentistry and Dental Education

Cardiff University

Prof James Field is currently a Professor in Restorative Dentistry and Dental Education and also the Cardiff University School of Dentistry's Director of Digital Education. He is a long-term active member of ADEE having most recently co-chaired the very successful Bridging the Clinical Gap special interest group and workshop.

James is academic lead for the ADEE European DigEdDent (Digital Education in Dentistry) portal, was lead author for the ADEE's Graduating European Dentist Curriculum Taskforce and Global lead for Shaping The Future of Dental Education: Interprofessional Education stream. He also represents Cardiff University as the trans-national partner in O-Health-Edu, an Erasmus+ K2 project to harmonise dental education across Europe.

Sibylle Vital

Professor of Pediatric Dentistry

Université Paris Cité

Professor Sibylle Vital graduated from the University of Paris Descartes in 2003. She completed a PhD in Oral Biology at the University of Paris Descartes in 2006 and a post-doctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco, USA in 2007. She is a full-time Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at University of Paris. From 2013-2016, she was head of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics and she is currently Vice Dean for Academic Affairs. She serves on the review board of the EJDE since 2014. Active member of ADEE since 2010, Sibylle is a member of the ADEE Executive Committee.

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