ADEE Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice (COPs) provide ADEE members and annual meeting delegates with a valuable opportunity to continually share and explore particular areas of clear focus and interest to the educational community

The COP initiative has been initiated by Prof Michael Botelho. The COPs are not only content driven by key themes in oral health education, research and policy but are encouraged to create language specific sub-groups or their own COPs to broaden the engagement across the ADEE membership.

Each COP has a designated chair or chairs, regularly reviewed aims and objectives, and a clear record of the development and support needs of the educational community

Like SIG chairs, COP chairs are required to meet formally with the ADEE executive as a core ADEE stakeholder group so as to evolve the work of the COPs and understand their value to the educational community

Converting a SIG to a COP

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 convert your SIG to a COP? Find out more here

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

If you are interested in starting a COP email administrator@adee.org in the first instance.
To access COPs that are currently active, click the relevant icon below.

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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