title: Pointing the profession in the right direction: positive ethical movements among dental students and education.
abstract: The American Student Dental Association has a substantial stake in the future of the dental profession. ASDA is taking a proactive role in addressing recently publicized cases of academic dishonesty and other ethical problems. Some of these initiatives and a sampling of the positive efforts in dental schools to build sound ethical climates are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Medical College of Georgia, Georgia, USA. loftisb@gmail.com
authors.forename: Brooke
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Loftis
mesh_terms: D032781:Codes of Ethics; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000941:ethics; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D006801:Humans; D010380:Peer Review; D012953:Societies, Dental / Q000941:ethics*; D013335:Students, Dental; D014481:United States