The 95th Annual Meeting of the IADR took place in San Francisco in March 2017.

Professors Mark Thomason, Janice Ellis and Dr Richard Holmes from the School of Dental Sciences all presented their educational research to this international audience.

Professor Thomason gave an oral presentation relating to the challenges and opportunities of working with a large cohort of part-time teachers. His presentation generated must discussion and was of value to many of the audience who face similar situations.

Professor Ellis presented a poster which described a novel method of collecting patient feedback on Newcastle University Dental undergraduate’s performance – Just One Thing. The poster was well received with many interested colleagues taking the time to talk about the work and how it could be applied to their own institutions and programmes.

Dr Holmes gave an excellent presentation on a joint student exchange initiative with Indiana dental school. Once gain there was much discussion with an enthusiastic audience who seemed to want to be able to duplicate a similar opportunity in their own programmes.

The conference also offered multiple networking opportunities, not least of which was the opportunity to host a UK dental education research symposium. This will take place on the 16rth June and we look forward to reporting back on that later this year.