POSEIDO. 2014;2(3) ISAIAS FAST scores in European and Korean dental schools 195 ISSN 2307-5295, Published by the POSEIDO Organization & Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License Research article The impact of leaders of internationalization in highly specialized academic fields: case study in implant dentistry and biomaterial education and research. Part 2: comparison of dental school strategies in French, Italian, Spanish and Korean universities using the ISAIAS FAST score Lidia M. Wisniewska, 1,2,3, * Yeo-Won Jo, 4 Sang-Yong Kim, 3 Sarah Amr, 5 Georges Khoury, 6 Pablo Galindo-Moreno, 7 Elena Sánchez-Fernández, 7 Ana M. Carrillo-Badillo, 7 Ana I. Renta-Davids, 8 Gaetano Marenzi, 9 Gilberto Sammartino, 9 Hom-Lay Wang, 10 David M. Dohan Ehrenfest, 3 and Manuel Fernándes-Cruz. 1 1 Department of Didactics and School Organization, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain 2 Department of International Relations, Paris Sorbonne University, Paris, France 3 LoB5 research unit, School of Dentistry & Research Center for Biomineralization Disorders, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea 4 Graduate School of Education, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea 5 Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Odontology, University Paris 5 Descartes, Paris, France 6 Department of Implantology, Faculty of Odontology, University Paris 7 Diderot, Paris, France 7 Oral Surgery and Implant Dentistry Department, School of Dentistry, University of Granada, Granada, Spain 8 Institute of Education Sciences, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain 9 Department of Oral Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University Federico II of Naples, Italy 10 Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, The University of Michigan, School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA *Corresponding author: Lidia M. Wisniewska, liliw@interia.pl Submitted on August 5 th , 2014; accepted after major corrections on October 15 th , 2014. Abstract Background and objectives. Internationalization is a major evolution in implant dentistry and biomaterial higher education and research. The aim of the present 3-part study was to apply the ISAIAS method (Intercultural Sensitivity Academic Index & Advanced Standards) in this highly specialized dental field, and to evaluate the impact of leaders of internationalization. In this second part, the ISAIAS method was applied globally to the dental schools of 4 participant universities, to highlight the impact of their internationalization efforts in this specialized education environment in these Asian and European contexts. Materials and Methods. In each campus, a group of 60 undergraduate dental students from 4 different dental schools (from respectively University of Granada, Spain; University Federico 2 of Naples, Italy; Paris University, France; and Chonnam National University, South Korea) were observed through the ISAIAS FAST (Fast Assessment Screening Test) questionnaire and through intensive field study (mixed methodology, i.e. combination of qualitative and quantitative methods). A final ISAIAS FAST score (mean value) was calculated for each group, including the mean scores in the 4 dimensions of intercultural