Scope of Pre-Doctoral Education - Panel - Pre Doc Breakout

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

3:40 PM - 4:40 PM MDT

Location: Sheraton Denver - Tower Court A

Speaker(s)

Halima Abukabbos, BDS, MPH, CPH, FRCDC

Clinical Assistant Professor & Graduate Program Director
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
HA

Homa Amini, DDS, MS, MPH

Professor-Clinical
The Ohio State University
Sahar Alrayyes, DDS, MS (she/her/hers)

Clinical professor
University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago IL
University of Illinois at Chicago
MA

Majd Alsaleh, DDS, MS (she/her/hers)

Pre-Doctoral Program Director
University of Illinois Chicago
University of Illinois Chicago
BD

Bhakti Desai, DMD MS (she/her/hers)

Associate Program Director
University of Illinois Chicago

Handouts
PR

Paloma Reyes Nguyen, DMD, MSD, Diplomate (American Board of Pediatric Dentistry)

Children's Hospital of Colorado
Liliana D. Rozo Gaeth, DDS. MS (she/her/hers)

CLINICAL ASSOCIATE ROFESSOR
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE - SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
University of Louisville School of Dentistry
Allison C. Scully, DDS, MS

Assistant Professor
Indiana University/Riley Hospital for Children
Indiana University/Riley Hospital for Children
Angela Yepes, DDS, MS, MBA (she/her/hers)

Clinical Assistant Professor
Indiana University School of Dentistry

This is an overview of pre-doc clinical experiences and procedural performance assessment in the pediatric dentistry curriculum. In addition, we will discuss the required clinical competencies with their rubrics, and the faculty calibration considerations.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will be able to effectively enhance the pre-doc clinical competencies required in pediatric dentistry.
Upon completion, participants will be able to address the need of faculty calibration for clinical competencies evaluation.
Upon completion, participants will be able to list the daily procedural performance assessment and rubrics.