2015 Catalog: General Courses

All of the Area programs who received funding as part of the Albuquerque/Nashville Area Oral Health Promotion/Disease Prevention FY 2015 Funding Initiative will provide preliminary reports on how they’re progressing on their dental prevention projects. This will in turn provide information to all Area programs on some of the priorities they can set to prevent oral diseases in their population. Specifically, programs will provide a mid-project evaluation on their specific project initiatives, with the final report and presentation to be given at the Area Dental Meeting in June 2015.

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
1. Identify at least three strategies that may help increase access to dental care for high-risk populations.
2. Describe at least one high-risk AIAN subgroup and the disparities in disease burden that make it a high-risk group.
3. Explain in detail the problem, objectives, and activities of at least one of the programs presented and how this project could be carries out in your own program.

Timothy Ricks — Director, Office of Public Health and Area Dental Officer For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at tim.ricks@ihs.gov.

It is the policy of the Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, that faculty/planners disclose any financial or other relationships with commercial companies whose products may be discussed in the educational activity. The Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, also requires that faculty disclose any unlabeled or investigative use of pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Images that have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes are prohibited.

None of the faculty/planners for this activity has a conflict of interest, and there is no use of unlabeled or investigative pharmaceutical products or medical devices. No images have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes.The educational objectives, content, and selection of educational methods and instructors are conducted independent of any commercial entity.

The IHS Division of Oral Health is an accredited sponsor of continuing education under the American Dental Association Continuing Education Recognition Program (CERP). ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the IHS at IHS CDE Coordinator or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at CCEPR.ada.org

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Tuition must be paid in full 8 weeks prior to the start date of any course. Request for refunds must be received in writing at least two weeks before the course begins. For each refund request, there will be an administrative charge of $100. No refunds will be made to registrants who fail to attend a course. If IHS CDE program cancels a course, then 100% of the tuition will be refunded.