Glossary of School Acronyms

 B 

BOMRU - Biomedical Oral Maxillofacial Research Unit

 C 

CAC - Clinical Academic Colleague

CADA - College of Alberta Dental Assistants

CC - Comprehensive Care

CCCA -  Comprehensive Care for Children & Adolescents

CDAC - Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada

CDCP - Canada Dental Care Plan

CDE/ CE - Continuing Dental Education 

CDSA - College of Dental Surgeons of Alberta

CHS - College of Health Sciences

CIO - Chief Information Officer

CRDHA - see ACDH - formerly College of Registered Dental Hygienists of Alberta

COC - Clinic Operations Committee

CS - Central Sterilization

CTL - Centre for Teaching & Learning

CWG - Clinical Working Group (Part of CAC)

 D 

DA - Dental Assisting / Dental Assistant

DDS - Doctor of Dental Surgery

DH - Dental Hygiene

DHYG - Dental Hygiene

DSA - Dental Students' Association

 E 

ECHA - See Kipnes - previously Edmonton Clinic Health Academy

ERSU - Educational Research & Scholarship Unit

 F 

FACA - Facility Access Control Administrator

FAR - Faculty Annual Report (previously ARO)

FASPC - Faculty Academic Standing & Promotion Committee (FoMD)

FEC - Faculty Evaluation Committee (FoMD)

FFD - Fund for Dentistry

FGSP - Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

FGSR - see FGSP - previously Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research 

FoMD - Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 

FP - Finance Partner 

 G 

GPR - General Practice Residency 

GRH - Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital 

GSC - Graduate Studies Committee

 H 

HMRC - Heritage Medical Research Centre

HRDF - Human Resources Development Fund

HRP/ HP - Human Resources Partner 

Hx - History

 I 

iRSM - Institute for Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine

IPC -  Infection Prevention & Control

IST - Information Services & Technology

ITAC - Innovation & Technology Advisory Committee

 L 

LAW - Learner Advocacy and Wellbeing 

LKS - Li-Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation

 M 

MDRT - Medical Device Reprocessing Tech 

MPSoD - Mike Petryk School of Dentistry

MSB - Medical Sciences Building

 N 

NASA - Non-Academic Staff Association (Support)

 O 

OAW - Office of Advocacy & Wellness (FoMD)

OG - Orthodontic Grad

OHC - Oral Health Clinic 

OM - Oral Medicine

OMFR - Oral Maxillofacial Radiology

OMFS - Oral Maxillofacial Surgery

 P 

PAC - Picture Archive Communications System

PG - Periodontology Grad

PGDE / PDE - Postgraduate Dental Education 

PIA - Privacy Impact Assessments

Pt - Patient / or Part time

Px - Presentation

 Q 

QI - Quality Improvement

 R 

RDA - Registered Dental Assistant

RDH  - Registered Dental Hygienist

RGC - Revenue Generation Centre

RIEC - Resource & Infrastructure Expenditure Committee (Preclinical & Clinical)

RPD - Removable Partial Dentures / Removable Prosthodontics/ Research Project Developer

 S 

SAS - Student & Academic Services

SHINE (Clinic) - Student Health Initiative for the Needs of Edmonton

SoD - See MPSod - previously School of Dentistry

SOP - Standard Operating Procedures

SRG - Student Research Group

SRU - Shared Resource Unit

 T 

Tx - Treatment

 U 

UAH - University of Alberta Hospital (also known as WMC)

UT - University Terrace

 V 

VVC - Van Vliet Centre (Butterdome)

 W 

WMC / WCM - Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre (University of Alberta Hospital)

 X 

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 Y 

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