Saturday, July 24, 2010 8:00 AM –5 PM

Accreditation Workshop for Dental Assisting

Monday, July 26, 8:00AM – 5:00PM 

Accreditation Workshop for Dental Hygiene 

(now includes more electronic documents on your flash drive)

Course Instructors:

Christine Dominick, CDA, RDH, MEd

Michele Edwards, CDA, RDH, MS 

The course descriptions for both dental assisting and dental hygiene accreditation workshops are the same, but the workshops are separated to allow focus on each discipline with specific needs addressed standard by standard:

Accreditation Workshop AM

This four hour morning session is designed to assist educators with the accreditation process, and it provides detailed instructions on demonstrating compliance with accreditation Standards 1 through 2. An emphasis is placed on the standards that are most frequently cited. Updates and changes in standards are compared with previous accreditation standards to assist attendees in providing what is now expected for each standard. The course includes a flash drive with electronic documents which serve as templates for exhibits that can serve as supportive documentation in their self-study documents. The first set of exhibits contains an outcomes assessment matrix, outcomes assessment tools, and visual presentations of program findings and performances for immediate analysis. Information on the curriculum, including the Curriculum Management Plan and all aspects of these standards, including the clinical education, are addressed in this course. Electronic exhibits provide supportive documentation for the clinical education portions of Standard 2. The course does not provide participants with entire electronic self-study documents or guarantee one's success at preparing a self-study document or a recommendation free report from their visiting site team.  

 Learning Outcomes:

At the completion of the course the participants will be able to:

• Define accreditation Standards 1 through 2 and methods for demonstrating program compliance with each standard.
• Describe the requirements for conducting outcomes assessments and analyzing them for program changes.
• Describe the curriculum requirements and an effective curriculum management plan.
• Describe the ADACODA standards for the dental hygiene clinical education.
• Utilize electronic exhibits provided on your flash drive and edit them for individual program use. 
• Utilize strategies for delegating portions of Standards 1 and 2 to various faculty members.  

Accreditation Workshop PM Session 

The four hour afternoon session is designed to assist educators with the entire accreditation process, and it provides detailed instructions on demonstrating compliance with accreditation Standards 3 through 6. An emphasis is placed on the standards that are most frequently cited. Updates and changes in the standards are compared with previous accreditation standards to assist attendees in providing what is now expected from the standards. This course includes a flash drive with electronic documents which serve as templates for exhibits that can serve as supportive documentation in self-study documents. The electronic documents on the flash drive include a Radiation Safety Plan, Exposure Control Plan, Medical Emergency Plan, and Quality Assurance Plan. 

Finally, this course provides a step by step guide to organizing and preparing your self-study document. We will have complete self-study documents at the end of the day for your review to assist you with planning the format of your own school's document. Guidelines for conducting a successful site visit are provided in this course. The Do's and Don'ts of the site visit will be clearly explained to the attendees.  This course does not provide participants with entire self-study electronic documents or guarantee one's success at preparing a self-study document or a recommendation free report from their visiting site team. 

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Describe the content necessary for demonstrating compliance with Standards 3-6 in your self-study document.
• Plan your radiation safety manual using the document on your flash drive as your guide
• Plan your Medical Emergency Plan using the document on your flash drive as your guide
• Plan your Exposure Control Plan using the document on your flash drive as your guide
• Plan your Quality Assurance Plan using the document on your flash drive as your guide
• Plan your self-study document with the step by step guide included in this course
• Plan for a successful site visit using the step by step guide included in this course

Sunday, July 25, 8:00 AM - 5:00PM                                              Dental and Allied Dental Teaching Methodology                      Course Leader: Cindy Biron Leiseca, RDH, EMT, MA          

In this all day session, course participants receive 8 ceu's for a teaching methodology course that will prepare them to provide current classroom and clinical teaching techniques.  The new content in this course includes electronic documents provided on a flash drive that include Power Point Presentations, and instructor guides to teaching and evaluating students in classroom and clinical courses.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to: 

• Discuss the current philosophy of education 
• Describe a faculty development plan for mentoring and calibrating faculty
• Describe each individual teaching style and adopt methods for diversifying their teaching style to meet student needs.
• Demonstrate the ability to utilize case based teaching and testing to facilitate student critical thinking
• Describe objective evaluation systems and clinical practicums
• Demonstrate the ability to give written and verbal feedback to help students’ develop their clinical skills

Offered at Winter Camp - February, 2011 at Amelia Island, FL

The Complete Nutrition Course for Allied Health Educators 

Course Leader: Becky Sroda RDH, MS

Associate Dean of Allied Health/Director of Dental Education at South Florida Community College.  Author of the textbook “Nutrition for a Healthy Mouth”

This half-day presentation will benefit participants who wish to:

• Teach a didactic Nutrition course in Dental Education
• Are responsible for grading processes on clinical nutritional counseling
• Clinical dental assistants and dental hygienists wishing to incorporate more nutritional counseling into their daily practice

Using the textbook “Nutrition for a Healthy Mouth”, topics are organized into teachable units that include PowerPoint Presentations, classroom activities, and suggestions for online assignments.  The course instructor will impart helpful tips for patient compliance during nutritional counseling, developed over the past 20 years.  Participants will have the opportunity to work with diet diary forms and simulate a counseling session using the most effective talking points and communication skills. All materials will be provided in electronic format on flash drives for each attendee.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:      

• Develop a complete Nutrition course for Dental Education according to ADEA guidelines, beginning with basic knowledge and terms and ending with skillful counseling techniques.
• Set up MyPyramid accounts for patients to balance their energy input and output.
•   Incorporate classroom and online activities into a nutrition course that will accompany units of instruction.
• Analyze completed diet diaries to determine if a dietary change is needed to prevent oral disease.
• Identify unhealthy eating habits and make suggestions for improvement.

Overed at Fall Camp 2010 Las Vegas and Winter Camp 2011 Amelia Island, FL 

The Complete Case Based Course

Course Leader: Debra Burtoft, RDH, BS

This four hour course includes electronic copies of a case based course syllabus, schedule of classes and clinics, and completed cases that include national board type test questions.  Learning activities for the attendees will include constructing cases and writing critical thinking questions utilizing all critical thinking standards. The course is designed to prepare allied dental educators to teach students using an investigative case based format. The format provided is a systematic approach in methods of teaching students to apply the concepts in constructing and presenting periodontal case studies. This is not a complete course in periodontology. It is a case based course with periodontology as the subject. It would be considered a corequisite clinic or lab for a didactic periodontology theory course. The case based templates could be applied to any allied dental course. As part of the course activity, each course attendee will develop cases for their own subject area in dental assisting, dental hygiene or dental laboratory technology. Two types of case based formats will be included as examples, one from actual patient experiences, and another from fictional cases that require students to conduct a critical review of the current literature on specific patient conditions and situations. In addition to the completed cases that are provided in electronic format as part of the course tuition, all cases developed by the course attendees during the activities will be placed on the flash drives. Each attendee will also prepare critical thinking questions for their cases.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Develop a case based course for the allied dental curricula
• Develop a bank of cases and case based questions for student exams.
• Prepare students to compile patient case information and present findings in classes.
• Plan small group activities that include internet research for case construction and presentation
• Teach students to develop the skill to investigate individual cases presented in testing sessions.
• Teach students to interpret and prepare critical thinking test questions.

Offered at Fall 2010 Camp Las Vegas 

The Complete Dental Hygiene Preclinic Course  

Course Leader: Virginia Wagner, CDA, RDH, BS

This is a completely developed, tried and true course that includes everything you need to teach dental hygiene preclinic; the syllabus, the course calendar, instructor calibration guide to each module, the power point presentations for each module, the evaluation system, the test bank and the DVD, "Precision in Periodontal Instrumentation" for demonstrations to students. The course instructor will guide you through the process of teaching each module, calibrating the faculty, and teaching and evaluating the students. The entire course is provided on a flash drive as part of the course tuition.  

Learning Outcomes:   

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Describe the contents of the ideal preclinic course
• Coordinate the ideal preclinic course
• Lead and calibrate faculty to team teach preclinic in an organized, consistent and effective manner
• Present course information to students in a methodical manner
• Incorporate critical thinking and case based learning as part of the preclinic teaching and evaluation system
• Conduct corroborative error practicums
• Utilize the documents on your flash drive to develop and teach your own preclinic course

Time to be announced 

TalEval Computerized Grading

Course Leaders: Cynthia Biron Leiseca

  Connie Harper from America's Software

 This workshop is provided free of charge to both dental assisting and dental hygiene educators who wish to learn about online computerized grading for on and offsite clinics. The grading system also tracks patient treatments, student performance, and surveys for outcomes assessment exhibits for accreditation. Those who have laptop computers with them may practice with the grading system.

Friday, July 23, 1:00 – 5:00 PM and Saturday, July 24, 8:00 AM - Noon 

How to Teach Dental Hygiene Preclinic Instrumentation 

Two four hour "hands-on" sessions in how to teach the basics in periodontal instrumentation to students in preclinic. This course will include sessions to accommodate participants in smaller groups with one instructor to every four course participants. Participants will be provided with instruction on how to perform and teach the tecniques to students.  This instruction is conducted on periodontally involved dental manikins with semi-transparent synthetic gingiva for visual perception of root instrumentation. Each class will be limited to provide a 1:4 ratio of presenter to participants, so that the individual needs of each participant can be met.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Demonstrate the latest concepts in instrumentation that include the ergonomic techniques taught in these camps.   
• Demonstrate the advanced fulcrum finger grasp and the rationale for advancing the fulcrum finger.
• Perform the stretching exercises for the development of the hand and finger flexibility and
• Apply the latest leverage and physics in opposition fulcrum and "Facilitated Fulcrum" techniques  
• Demonstrate the ability to use a methodical approach to evaluating student performance of instrumentation skills 
• Conduct a corroborative error instrumentation practicume