1. he Federation of Prosthodontic Organizations, during its February, 1967, business meeting, voted to sponsor a Workshop on Advanced Prosthodontic Education. The Education Committee of the Federation, in cooperation with the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association and the American Association of Dental Schools, extended invitations to attend to all of the recognized dental schools in the United States and Canada, to the member organizations of the Federation, and to the other groups allied to dental education (i.e., American Board of Prosthodontics, Federal Services, and the like). The Workshop was held in the American Dental Association Building in Chicago on July 8 and 9, 1968, with 98 participants. A 70 per cent response from the dental schools and a near 100 per cent response from the other groups were in effect signs of universal recognition of the need for guidelines in programs of advanced prosthodontic education. The formal organization of the Workshop was presented in “Charge to the workshop” by Judson C. Hickey. This was followed by the presentation of the following five background papers: “Practice of prosthodontics: Past, present, and future” by Douglas A. Atwood; “What a prosthodontist does” by P. Kenneth Morse; “What a prosthodontist should know” by I. Kenneth Adisman; “Criteria for evaluating candidates for the American Board of Prosthodontics” by Robert B. Lytle; and “Criteria for evaluating advanced programs in prosthodontics” by Arthur J. Krol. There were three intervening periods of open-end discussion. The Workshop was coordinated with two national surveys: (1) A survey of all the graduate prosthodontic programs in the United States and (2) a survey of the practice schedules of all the diplomates of the American Board of Prosthodontics. Surveys were also made of three other related workshops: (1) The National Work-