Sunday, March 1, 2009

CAAPID: Centralized Application for Advanced Placement for International Dentists

Hot off the press ! Foreign trained dentists looking for advanced placement positions in US dental schools will soon have a new and improved way to apply for such positions. ADEA, the American Dental Education Association, will implement a centralized application system for international dentists. The first application cycle will start on June 8, 2009. It seems that this new system has been developed at the request of several dental schools that currently have international programs or advanced standing programs to streamline the process of admissions to these programs.

The application system is similar in a lot of ways to PASS or AADSAS where the applicant is required to submit one application and one set of supporting documents or credentials to ADEA and ADEA in turn distributes these to the programs the applicant in interested in.

More information will be available as we get closer to the June 8 date, ADEA staff will be demonstrating the CAAPID application during the ADEA Annual Session this month in Phoenix. Later on this month, ADEA expects to have a CAAPID information website with more details about participating programs and their admission requirements.

This is truly an exciting development to international dentists who are just starting their US dental license quest, it will make the whole application process a lot easier and more efficient. Stay tuned for more information.