All courses are taught by Dr. Jack Jacklich himself...that's me :). Most old fashioned people who can't bring themselves to use first names call me Dr. Jack. Most dentists call me Jack.
By the way, "Jacklich" is pronounced with a long "A" as though it were spelled "Jake-lich."
When I started teaching, I lived in Joliet, Illinois. From 1977 until 2004 I lived in Santa Cruz, CA. Now Marian and I make our home in Kissimmee, FL. In case you are not familiar with Kissimmee it is in Osceola County about 10 miles east of Disney.
Since 1977 I have devoted my life to teaching, writing, doing research and inventing dental instruments and techniques.
My teaching methodology has been the subject of a PhD thesis and is unique in the dental field. Very few courses in dentistry are designed from the ground up with the behavioral model in mind.
I have been quoted as saying, "It is totally irrelevent whether I can do a root canal. (In fact I'm pretty good at it.)
The important thing is that after you leave my class that YOU can do a root canal.
I have always combined lecture, video demonstration and then hands-on drilling ( if you non-dentists out there in cyberspace will pardon the pun ) until the dentist feels that he can perform the same procedure sucessfully the next morning on his next patient. Recently I have prepared a slide presentation because we now have our own teaching facility here in Kissimmee.
This teaching technique has been carried into the "Automated Endo on CDROM". course being produced now. It is teaching by objectives where the educational objectives are clearly implemented in both didactic and laboratory exercises. The dentist has the further option of practicing these techniques on patients as soon as he/she feels competent to do so.
(The following is for historical perspective as the travelling course is no longer given)
One of the most unique facets of the course is WHERE the course is given. He uses a 40 foot long mobile classroom converted from a NEOPLAN bus ( you readers in Europe will recognize the name ). It is fully equipped with all the air turbine handpieces, air-water syringes, xray, computers, video that are needed for 16 dentists at a time to partipate.
In addition to teaching he drives and maintains the bus himself and has personally taught his course in 49 of the fifty states. ( All except Alaska )...No, he doesn't drive the bus to Hawaii!
He parks the bus in the host Dentist's parking lot and thus can bring the course near to almost any dentist in the US.
Of late the courses are only given on a twice-monthly basis in Kissimmee, Florida, usually on Saturday and Sunday.