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DE0089: 2017 Challenges Course - Alaska Area

 
Date: 4/11/2017 - 4/13/2017
Course Status: Completed
Facility: Alaska Native Medical Center
Location: Anchorage, AK
Level: Basic
Audience: Dentists, DHA
Quota: 10 - 50 students
Tuition: $0.00
Hours: 17.50 (Total CDE); 1.00 (AGD - 018); 1.00 (AGD - 074); 2.00 (AGD - 149); 2.00 (AGD - 311); 2.00 (AGD - 314); 3.00 (AGD - 317); 6.50 (AGD - 434)
Joint Sponsorship: No
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Summary:

This course is open only to newer dentists [new to the IHS/Tribal system] in the ALASKA AREA IHS. For other Challenges courses, check the IHS CDE Catalog or contact your Area Dental Officer.

The purpose of Challenges is to provide new dentists and dental health aid therapists practicing in the Alaska Indian Health Service didactic and hands-on clinical training in the areas of pediatric dentistry, oral surgery, endodontics, and advanced practice general dentistry.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

1. Identify appropriate behavior guidance and comprehensive pediatric dental treatment planning techniques;
2. Discuss signs and symptoms of oral facial infections and recognize oral facial trauma, apply suturing techniques; and
3. Apply endodontic treatment techniques, understand full thickness flap design, and extraction complications.

Speaker / Presenter:

Ryan Gard — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at RGard@SouthcentralFoundation.com.

JAMES SINGLETON — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jsingleton@scf.cc.

Collin Boswell — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at cboswell@scf.cc.

THOMAS BREWER — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at tbrewer@scf.cc.

Mary Williard — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at mwilliard@ctclusi.org.

Abby DeBonis — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at ADeBonis@SouthcentralFoundation.com.

Maria Heidi Sipin — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at msipin@searhc.org.

JANE BLEUEL — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jableuel@scf.cc.

Sarah Shoffstall-Cone — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at sshoffstallcone@anthc.org.

Jennifer Lombrano — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at gi.jlo100@gmail.com.

Disclosure Policy:

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.

Accreditation:
The IHS Division of Oral Health is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider

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

Prerequisites:

None

Tuition Payment Information:

There is no tuition for this course as it is sponsored by the Alaska Area.

Tuition Policy:

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.