2010 Catalog: All Courses

There is an Area-wide HPDP Tobacco Prevention/Cessation activity to improve compliance with assessing tobacco use and exposure and use skills for counseling and supporting patients who decide to quit smoking. As a dental professional, you can play an essential role in helping your patients quit or think about quitting tobacco. By delivering an integrated stage based Five A Model brief intervention to a person dependent on tobacco, as a dental professional, you have the potential of increasing their likelihood of quitting by 60!

This workshop is offered to staff on how to use a Five A Model Intervention in your clinic. You will learn how to conduct low-intensity evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment interventions that do make a difference. With the knowledge and skills you will gain during the workshop, you will have the ability to encourage multiple tobacco cessation interventions to each tobacco user by simply being a role model in your clinical setting.

At the completion of the workshop, you will be able to intervene with all tobacco users, including patients who are not yet considering quitting, by understanding and practicing the skills to:

1. Screen and assess for tobacco use.
2. Conduct the Five A Model brief intervention for tobacco cessation.
3. Document intervention[s] for tobacco cessation.
4. Refer patients who use tobacco to intensive cessation services.

Crystal Begay — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at crystal.begay@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.