Requirements for Academic Guest and Academic affiliate
The Affiliate Member on the Academic track will present a paper at each of the three affiliate years. The Affiliate member on the Clinical track will treat 6 case prospectively and present a scientific paper at the 2nd or 3rd year of his/her affiliate membership.
Guest on Academic Track
Guests on the Academic Track are required to present a 20-30 minites scientific paper.
The Guest should work with the sponsor and co-sponsor and may desire to present an outline of the paper to the members of the Academic Credentials Committee to gain their input and assistance in preparing an acceptable paper (see Table Deadlines).
The purpose of presenting an original paper is to advance the art and science of orthodontics and communicate fresh ideas that impact our specialty. The Academic Credentials Committee will assist you in bringing ideas worthy of scholarly review to the membership. It is their responsibility, along with your sponsors, to keep you “on track” during the affiliate period and to ensure that your efforts will culminate in an acceptable oral presentation. Both you and the membership will benefit from this endeavor. It is an expressed purpose of the Angle Society to advance its members in scientific achievement.
All presentations will be evaluated by the Examining Committee, the Academic Credentials Committee, the Executive Committee, and the Membership and will form the basis for an invitation for you to proceed to Affiliate Membership.
The Examining and Academic Committee chairs will report out in writing to each affiliate within 30 days of the close of the meeting summarizing the discussion about their papers and or cases. The report will clearly state what will be expected for the following year(s) to complete their Affiliate requirements. The sponsors and officers will be copied on this report.
Responsibility of the sponsors.
Initiate the approval of the guests with the Executive Committee 6 months before the annual society meeting.
The sponsors MUST supervise and approve the clinical case selected in any of the 3 suggested category as suggested in the Clinical Requirements of the Academic Affiliate section of this page.
By December 15 contact the Executive Committee to ensure that a discussor is assigned to the guests
Academic Affiliate Track Requirements
The Affiliate Member on the Academic track will present a paper at each of the three affiliate years.
Manuscript design and development
The paper shall be original, fully referenced and suitable for consideration for publication in The Angle Orthodontist
The subject will preferably be a research project in which the Affiliate has been personally involved.
If, instead, the topic of the paper is to be a critical, rigorously documented evaluation of a research area, i.e. a new concept of treatment, the Affiliate should request formal approval of the proposed topic from the Academic Credentials Committee (Table 1).
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- A written outline and detailed abstract must be sent to the Chairman of the Academic Credentials Committee by June 1st.
- The Committee should respond no later than July 1st
The paper must be submitted each year to the Academic Credentials Committee by November 15th of the year preceding the presentation. The Academic Credentials Committee will preview the paper according to the following guidelines and return it with recommendations by December 15th (Table 1 Deadline)
See the evaluation criteria in the section: Affiliate Academic Member Acceptance
A copy of the final paper must be submitted to the Discusser by January 1st.
The Affiliate shall meet with the Academic Credentials Committee at the beginning of each meeting to discuss the manuscript considering the projected presentation. It is assumed that these comments will serve not only to improve the quality of subsequent papers, but will also assist the Affiliate Member in presenting an acceptable oral summary of the current paper to the membership.
The Academic Affiliate shall present the accepted paper to the membership according to the following:
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- First year, 30 minutes
- Second year, 20-30 minutes
- Third year, 20-30 minutes
Manuscript presentation
These presentations shall be:
1-Summaries of the original manuscript
2-Tailored to the general clinical and scientific interest and background of the membership. Although a broad range of clinical and biological topics is welcome, the Affiliate Member should strive to outline the clinical implications, both real and potential, of his/her study.
3-Delivered on the first or second day of the meeting.
4-Discussed by a member of the Academic Credentials Committee
Affiliate Academic Membership acceptance
The Academic Credentials Committee will evaluate the presentation. Each member will evaluate the presentation/paper according to the following criteria.
1- Relevance of the topic and interest to the membership and the orthodontic community.
2- Adequacy of the literature review
3- Design of the study [soundness of the methodology]
4- Statistical analyses
5- Presentation and discussion of the results
6- Validity of the conclusions
7- Clarity of expression
Each of these factors (1 through 7) will be rated as either acceptable or unacceptable and a written summary will be provided containing comments, suggestions, and finally an overall rating of either “acceptable” or “unacceptable”.
If the paper is judged “unacceptable” by a majority of the Committee, an additional paper will be required.
A member of the Academic Credentials Committee will discuss the results of the Committee’s evaluation with the Affiliate.
The Academic Credentials Committee shall submit a written report to the Executive Committee at the same meeting regarding the quality and acceptability.
The Executive Committee may accept or reject the counsel of the Academic Credentials Committee. They may extend the duration of the Affiliate membership to allow the Affiliate Member time to complete the academic requirements.
More details available in page: Scientific Paper for Clinical Affiliate and Affiliate Academic
Clinical Requirements of the Academic Affiliate
The Affiliate on the Academic Track must display and discuss the records of one case treated in his/her private practice, or in his/her institution under his/her supervision in accordance with the standards acceptable to the ClinicalExamining Committee.
The academic affiliate MUST submits the selected case to their sponsor(s) in advance and obtain confirmation it can be submitted to the Exam Committee.
The case selected must meet one of the 3 categories of the clinical track:
1- Class II, with at least a 6mm overjet and at least 5 mm class II molar relationship on one side.
2- A four unit extraction case (adult or growing patient)
3- An adult treatment case
Multidisciplinary case selection (perio, prostho, endo, TMJ, surgical) is permitted since it is a retrospectively treated case.
See the instruction in the clinical affiliate section for writing the case resume.
An electronic draft version of the written case resume will be sent to the examining committee chair with sponsors copied 30 days prior to the meeting.
The case selected should be from the Affiliates private practice. If the Affiliate does not have access to a pool of private patients, the case should be a patient for whom the affiliate had direct care and supervision of the care.
The case must be finished within 3 years of the Affiliates’s attendance. Final records must be taken within one year of appliance removal.
Cases treated during residency are not permitted, including ABO cases submitted from residency.
Progress records should be presented if available.
