AEEDC Student Competition

AEEDC Student Competition – Conference Hall A

Competition is a major factor in education on a global scale. National education systems intend to bring out the best in the next generation, by involving students in educational intellectual competitions and offering them incentives for self-improvement.

It’s our pleasure to conduct the 14th edition of the AEEDC Student Competition. We are now back to competing face-to-face, in person, using a digital learing platform and is one of the activities of the UAE International Dental Conference & Arab Dental Exhibition – AEEDC Dubai, which will be held between 7 – 9 February 2023, at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

AEEDC Student Competition provides a unique opportunity to all dental & oral medicine students by participating through their universities. Each university is participating with a team of 5 students in their 4th & 5th academic years, who will actively interact with their counterparts from different dental colleges and universities. A vision of exchanging information, knowledge and expanding the students’ horizons on various fields of dentistry.

Competing students will be challenged to engage with questions in various subjects in oral & dental medicine ranging from Infection Control and Four Handed Dentistry to Implantology and Oral Surgery.

AEEDC Student competition 2022 hosted 18 universities from around the world.

Click here for Students Competition Participation Form 2023

Objectives:

• To involve dental students in AEEDC Dubai programs.
• To create interaction among dental students of different institutions.
• To expand their knowledge in various fields in dentistry by active participation.
• To support and shape up the knowledge hunting sense of the future dentists.
• To develop an exciting environment and cohesion among dental students.

Awards & Certificates:

1. The winning team in the final rounds will be announced as AEEDC KNOWLEDGE CHAMPION 2023. 
2. Each member student of the champion team will receive 2,000 AED.
3. Each member student of the 2nd place winner will receive 1,000 AED.
4. Each member student of the 3rd place winner will receive 500 AED.
5. Free registration for AEEDC Dubai 2024 for each member student of the champion team.
6. Certificate of participation in the competition will be given to all teams’ members & their supervisors.

General Guidelines and Regulations:

• In 2023, the competition will be run Physically through a game-based platform.
• AEEDC Student Competition is open to all public and private dental universities/colleges.
• Submission of the participation form does not automatically entitle the applicant to participate in AEEDC Student Competition 2023.
• All the team members and their supervisors must be registered at the conference.
• No participation forms will be considered after 18th November 2022.
• An incomplete participation form will not be accepted as all required information should be received before the submission deadline.
• The academic team is made up of five students which will be nominated from each university to be part of the competition.
• Participants must be in their clinical practice stage (4th or 5th academic years, or 5th and internship years in educational systems where the last year of education is the internship year).
• Each team is supervised by one faculty member from the same university.
• The faculty member supervisor will nominate one team leader (captain) from the five students to be the representative of the team while answering the questions.
• A draw process will be done to select the competing teams in the preliminary round and will be announced to the participants of the competition.
• Participating teams’ members are expected to represent their University in a professional manner, any socially unacceptable behaviour will result in automatic disqualification of their team from the competition.
• For any withdrawals, the participants should notify the *organiser in writing as soon as possible or a minimum of one month prior to the event.
• ​In case any of the participant’s contracts COVID-19, there should be a backup student to fill in their place or the team can participate with a minimum of 3 participants.
• For any scientific objections to the questions, inform the organisers in the hall and contact the following emails: jeanette.sales@index.ae; rania.alharidi@index.ae, with your objection and supporting references.
• After elimination rounds A & B an email with the references should be sent before 6:00 PM, the issue will be addressed before the next round.
• During the semi-final/final rounds a review will be held on the spot and decisions will be taken accordingly

Competition Mechanics:

The competition will be composed of generally four main rounds; Elimination A & B, Semi-Final and Final Rounds:

1. Elimination Rounds A:
   • Day one: 7th of Feb 2023, Hall A – 2:00 pm
   • According to the final number of the participating universities, a random draw process will be done to select the competing teams
   • Example;
     

     Round 1:	Round 2:	Round 3:	Round 4:	Round 5:	Round 6:
     Team 1	Team 3	Team 5	Team 7	Team 9	Team 11
     Team 2	Team 4	Team 6	Team 8	Team 10	Team 12

      

     Round 7:	Round 8:	Round 9:	Round 10:	Round 11:	Round 12:
     Team 13	Team 15	Team 17	Team 19	Team 21	Team 23
     Team 14	Team 16	Team 18	Team 20	Team 22	Team 24

     Note that:

   • If the Elimination round contains an odd number of teams. One of the rounds will have 3 teams competing together.
   • Last year winning team has the advantage of joining the semi-final round directly.

    

2. Elimination Rounds B:
   • Day one: 7th of Feb 2023, Hall A – 3:00 pm
   • Winners of the previous rounds will compete against each other
   • Example;
     

     Round 1:	Round 2:	Round 3:	Round 4:	Round 5:	Round 6:
     Team 1	Team 3	Team 5	Team 7	Team 9	Team 11
     Team 2	Team 4	Team 6	Team 8	Team 10	Team 12

      

3. Semi-Final Rounds:
   • Day Two: 8th of Feb 2023, Hall A – 2:00 pm
   • Winners of the previous rounds will compete against each other
   • Example;
     

     Round 1:	Round 2:	Round 3:
     Team 1	Team 3	Team 5
     Team 2	Team 4	Team 6

      

4. Final Round:
   • The final rounds will be conducted on the 8th of Feb 2023 during the afternoon session.

Competition Policy:

• All five participants of each university will work together to answer the questions as a team including the captain student, who will deliver the answer.
• Questions are in multiple-choice (MCQ) form. Sometimes ALL choices are correct to some extent, but the MOST correct one is the required answer at the organisers’ discretion.
• Questions are divided into two groups:
  • • Group one will be correlated to AEEDC Conference Lectures submitted by the speakers who are the only reference.
    • Group two will be correlated to Clinical Dentistry submitted by each participating university and will be cross-checked by independent academics.
• The conference lectures’ questions will be from the respective session previous to each round, i.e. The morning session of day 1 & 2.
•  Excluded Conference Halls from the Competition questions is Hall A in day 2.
• Each round will be composed of five questions randomly chosen from the Conference lectures’ questions & Universities questions and each team will receive the same questions during the same game (round).
• Each question will be equal to one point.
• In case of a tie, each team will have one tie-breaker question, if both answered correctly, the process will be repeated until only one team gets the correct answer.
• Disqualification in case of receiving external assistance is at the organisers’ discretion.

Previous Winners:

2022 King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
2021 Qassim University, College of Dentistry
2020 King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
2019 Qassim University, College of Dentistry
2019 Qassim University, KSA
2018 Imam Abdulrahman Alfaisal University, College of Dentistry, KSA
2017 King Khalid University, KSA
2016 Alfarabi College, Faculty of Dentistry and Nursing, KSA
2015 Alfarabi College, Faculty of Dentistry and Nursing, KSA
2014 RAK College of Dental Sciences, UAE
2013 Sharjah University, UAE
2012 Sharjah University, UAE
2011 Kuwait University
2010 Kuwait University
2009 Kuwait University   and   Sharjah University

Click here for Students Competition Participation Form 2023

Click here for Students Competition Participation Form 2023