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IE-012 - Dentists of Tomorrow 2024

Sunday, March 9, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Location: National Harbor 6, Upper Ballroom
CE: 1
Join us to explore what the U.S. dental schools’ predoctoral senior class of 2024 told us about their influences for pursuing a dental degree, their experiences during dental school and where they plan to work and how it compares with the responses of their 2019 counterparts.
This session will start by presenting the results of Dentists of Tomorrow 2024, an analysis based on the 2024 ADEA U.S. Dental School Senior Student Survey. Following this presentation, ADEA members from around the country will provide their perspectives about their experiences with predoctoral students and the impact of these students’ attitudes and expectations.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the main trends in graduating predoctoral dental students’ experience before, during and after dental school.
  • Identify graduating students’ attitudes and motivating factors to pursue a career in dentistry.
  • Discuss the connection between oral health care and the other health care fields and how the new generation of predoctoral students prepare for the interdisciplinary field of practice.