In health care education we often pilot new methods for learning and supporting our teams. Exploring new approaches to a problem often is based on a limited availability of high-quality evidence.

In March 2020, ADEA responded to the need to quickly share innovations happening at academic institutions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic by adding a new section to the online Journal of Dental Education, Advancing Through Innovation. The number of manuscript submissions exceeded expectations, and we have decided to continue the series and expand the scope to all teaching and learning innovations happening at heath professions education institutions.

Advancing Through Innovation articles are scholarly insights that are not completed research, yet they meet our standards of originality, clarity of approach, and significance through a rapid peer review process. The goal is to present a problem, describe how it was addressed, and discuss the lessons learned from the experience in order to help others replicate, refine, or redirect the approach to similar problems in their local environments.