Utilization of dental sessions at APAN conferences for education and community development
1 Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Jalan Prof Dr Moestopo No 47 Surabaya 60132, Indonesia.
2 Telemedicine Development Center of Asia (TEMDEC), International Medical Department, Kyushu University Hospital, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
3 Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Indonesia, Salemba Campus, Jalan Salemba Raya No 4, Central Jakarta, Indonesia.
4 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Hasanuddin University, Kampus Unhas Tamalanrea, Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan, KM 10, Tamalanrea Indah, Makassar 90245 Indonesia.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 21(01), 1039–1045
Publication history:
Received on 04 December 2023; revised on 10 January 2024; accepted on 13 January 2024
Abstract:
The dental profession always expands its capabilities and contributes to advances in the quality of health services through scientific advancements and knowledge dissemination. Since 2016, the Faculty of Dental Medicine at Airlangga University has collaborated with the Telemedicine Development Center of Asia (TEMDEC) at Kyushu University Hospital to organize a webinar at a session on the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN). The session was a dental session, which was originally designed to promote remote medical education. This program aims to improve the quality of dental education and is conducted regularly, twice a year.
After the COVID-19 pandemic ended in 2021, we innovated to expand this program from online to hybrid-based, so that audiences could also attend in person. With adequate promotion, the number of audiences increases rapidly. We are also expanding the benefits of this program beyond improving the quality of dental education; it also provides knowledge dissemination and empowers Indonesian dentists. Thus, this program also delivers community development as an additional essential output.
This paper summarizes all activities of dental sessions at APAN conferences and shows how they also produce other outputs in accordance with institutional performance targets, including strengthening collaboration between connected institutions and the resultant outcome in terms of inbound staff, outbound staff, and outbound students.
Keywords:
Telemedicine; Dental Education; Community Development; Knowledge Dissemination; Conference
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