General Membership Benefits & Resources
Benefits and Resources An Overview
What does the IDA membership mean to you?
A membership with a dental association entitles you to get regular updates on dentistry or maybe an invitation to participate into some activities undertaken by the organization. Or is it that you have not even given a thought to this question at all…..
Believe it or not, the answer is not as limited as you think. IDA membership is a world of possibilities. A platform to highlight and share your ideas and experiences, a back-up system, a network of related activities, a tool for marketing, an opportunity to improve the oral health of our people, a center of resource. There is immense potential for growth in your valuable association with us.
Professional
The professional development is necessary to keep your career alive in the age of fierce competition. IDA is firmly rooted on these grounds and has developed the following areas in development of the profession.
They are in the areas of:
• Publications
• Educational
• Placement Centre
• Dental Practice
• Affiliate Membership
• Member Recognition
• Tobacco Intervention Initiative
• SPOT Centre
• Emergency Dental Centre
• Online Directories
These are the areas each having a variety of activity to assist your professional development.
Financial
The financial benefits are just another aspect of your membership with IDA. The smart benefits that you can reap from IDA are just the way you would want to be. Apart from the direct financial benefits of subsidized rates of the events and publications there is a lot more for your assistance.
• Membership Discounts
• IDA Co Branded Credit Card
• IDA Insurance Plan/dental shield
• IDA Retirement Plan
• Online Shopping
• Bidding
• Loan
Legal
With the increasing awareness in the masses about their rights and also the means by which they can protect them, has reflected onto the nature of dental practice in the modern world. The practitioner needs to be well equipped with knowledge to avoid untoward outcomes of dental treatment and if they occur a good protective mechanism to safeguard your professional rights and also your career. IDA being an association an organization of and by the dental professionals can be an effective shield to safeguard you against unnecessary and complicated legal procedures. Ida looks forward to design an effective peer review programme that intends to settle disputes outside the court and save the time and money of both the parties, the dentist and the patient. The programme aims to resolve the dispute that can help protect the rights of both the dentist and of the patient also.
Social
An old adage says ‘man is a social animal’, so if he is to prosper it is possible only when prosperity occurs in a social environment. It is the social environment that helps for a continuous growth. An individualistic growth is bound to stagnate after a certain time. IDA being the largest dental association of India can help you socialize within the professional world and with its public related work , twigs out the communication stem to the general masses. The activities of IDA provide the platform to share and grow mutually. A social interaction for the continuous growth of your practice by assuming the role of your business associate... Apart from just professional and financial gains, a dentist has certain duties that he owes to the society which he needs to exercise; duties towards the society that provided him/her the education, the environment and above all the opportunity to grow and flourish. It helps the entire dental profession. Let us together strive to take dentistry to the highest realm of service, professional and technical advancement.
Health
IDA has been constantly been in efforts to serve its members more and it also Ida concerned with the health of its members.
In an initiative in this direction IDA has embarked upon the Member Wellness Initiative under which IDA has put its efforts against Hepatitis B, a long posed professional hazard in dentistry. Under this initiative the members are tested for Hepatitis B on the counter established for the same in the IDA conferences. An effort lo this nature makes them aware of the Hepatitis status and act as a potential to get the members aware of the dreaded disease and its consequences.