served as a site visitor for CODA. “During that phase I realized how important accreditation standards are relative to setting expectations for all programs and graduating students,” Dr. Campbell explained. “I recognized they were a critical point of control. I also realized there was the potential to have some impact on them.” For the College, Dr. Campbell directed the two site visits that established the College’s new Advanced Prosthodontics Program in 1993, the clinical portion of the College-wide CODA site visit in 1999, and he then chaired the College’s whole site visit in 2006. “In those roles you learn the accreditation standards really well,” Dr. Campbell said. With that high level of knowledge, he then made an application for CODA’s Predoctoral Review Committee and was selected as part of a very competitive process. The various commission Review Committees do much of the preparatory and hard work of the commission. Ultimately, the commission considers and acts on the recommendations from the committees. The commission’s Predoctoral Review Committee considers all matters related to predoctoral dental education in the US. “I volunteered for the Predoctoral Review Committee because I knew it was at a critical crossroads,” Dr. Campbell said. “It had just embarked on totally rewriting the predoctoral accreditation standards. I served on the Predoctoral RC from 2008 through 2012.”
The American Dental Education Association had prepared a framework for new accreditation standards. The process requires that the Predoctoral Review Committee consider in detail, act on, and recommend to the commission actions related to the standards. “Over the next couple of years we poured through those, rewriting and changing key aspects of the standards to be certain that schools are encouraged to follow best practices when it comes to patient care and their educational programs, and to really be certain that all graduating students are doing the right things,” Dr. Campbell said. “The goal was to be certain they promoted excellence, and that there was a right mix of accountability for programs while allowing adequate flexibility for programs to be themselves. “We rewrote boilerplate sections and crafted many of the standards as they now exist,” he added. “Specifically, I championed best practices as they related to a large number of practices and competencies such as oral cancer risk assessment and screening, recognizing the complexity of care and referring, managing dental laboratory procedures, evaluation of the outcomes of care, application of evidence-based dentistry, application of emerging science and technologies, and a large number of other items. There was not much we didn’t touch. “One important example was that we inserted in the clinical education standards that all students must be competent in the replacement of missing teeth with fixed,
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