A description of AIDA's conceptualization, including its mission, vision, and strategic world view.
A description of AIDA's move to action, its concerns, and in what arenas it hopes to influence the future of dentistry.
A description of AIDA's membership rules and requirements, as well as the rewards of participation.
A roster of AIDA's leadership, strategic partners, advisors, and benefactors. Are you there?
A growing collection of essays from AIDA's Board Members and other leaders in dentistry regarding the present state of affairs in dentistry, in health care, and in organizational effectiveness.
A series of short commentaries on dental news items.
How to get information not otherwise listed on this site.
An open forum for and from you, our membership. Speak your piece. Step forward, or sit down and sign that contract. AIDA is your organization.
A description of AIDA's preconceived means to specific ends. These templates may be copied, changed, evolved, franchised at no cost, and used in any way you can imagine. Please keep us informed of what has worked for you and your ideas.
Self actualization is the first step to professional excellence. This growing list of internet links is for when you want to work on you!
Clinical excellence is the second, and most concentrated-on step to professional excellence. The variety of truly useful sites on the internet is small, but growing.
Managerial excellence is the third step to professional excellence. Business accumen is well known to be lacking among most health care profesionals; these links may provide some useful information above that derived from your local retired dentists!
LINKS: ORGANIZATIONAL
EFFECTIVENESS
The final, most neglected and misunderstood aspect of professional excellence. Big business gets it, and we don't know what we don't know. These links will start you on the journey toward the big picture and how to transform our profession into a learning organization.
How to get in touch with a myriad of other dental organizations, hopefully to let them know what you think and what you are going to do about it!
How to join/form your area Independent Dentist's Association. AIDA works as an informal, no-fee franchise model. We beg to be copied, just stay connected. Here's how.
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