Dental organizations are
intended to facilitate the spread of knowledge and services
throughout the dental and patient communities. Knowledge must
be shared because of the original definition of the word
"Doctor", meaning teacher. Healing services must
be offered to patients because that is
the essence of the profession. Services of other sorts must
be offered to dentists because of the obvious advantages of
sharing information and experience. This concept has been
understood for millenia prior to the establishment of the
first "guilds" in the Medievil period.
The
fundamental basis of knowledge, service, information, and
experience is learning. AIDA proposes that dentistry become a
learning organization,
which is a hands-on, participation sensitive organizational
culture. Learning people populate and drive learning
organizations. The local dental society is the most
accessible and facile arena to promote the values of choice
in dentistry, and through which to inject energy to affect
positive change into the profession.
AIDA
provides the backbones of a model dental society
for your inspection, editorialization, and hopefully for your
use. The specifics can and should be adapted to the
personality and culture of your locale. The
"platform", level of proactivity, level of
commitment, and vision must be assumed by the leadership upon
commencement.
